familiaritas

fămĭlĭārĭtas, ātis, f. [familiaris, II. B. I.], familiarity, intimacy, familiar intercourse, friendship, intimate acquaintance.

I.

Prop. (freq. and class.; in sing. and plur.;

syn.: amicitia, necessitudo, notitia): familiaritas tanta nullo cum hospite... ut nihil sit familiaritate nostra conjunctius,

Cic. Fam. 13, 19, 1; cf.:

cum Antipatro Derbete mihi... summa familiaritas intercedit,

id. ib. 13, 73, 2:

cum P. Terentio Hispone mihi summa familiaritas consuetudoque est,

id. ib. 13, 65, 1:

viri boni... familiaritate conjuncti,

id. Off. 1, 17, 55:

memorabilis C. Laelii et P. Scipionis,

id. Lael. 1, 4:

digna mihi res nostrā familiaritate visa est,

id. ib.: Verginii familiaritate delector, id. ib. 27, 101:

familiaritatem consuetudo affert,

id. Deiot. 14, 39:

in alicujus familiaritatem venire,

id. Fam. 7, 15, 2:

in familiaritatem intrare penitus,

id. Q. Fr. 1, 1, 5, § 15:

se insinuare,

id. Caecin. 5, 13:

sese dare,

id. Verr. 2, 2, 70, § 169:

recipere aliquem,

id. Phil. 2, 32, 78:

ad ali cujus familiaritatem se applicare,

id. Clu. 16, 46:

versatus in intima familiaritate hominis potentissimi,

id. Balb. 26, 58:

aliquem familiaritate devincire,

id. Q. Fr. 1, 2, 2, § 4 et saep.—In plur.:

consuetudines et familiaritates,

Cic. Off. 1, 17, 53:

inveteratas familiaritates exstinguere (opp.: odia sempiterna),

id. Lael. 10, 35:

jam a sapientium familiaritatibus ad vulgares amicitias oratio nostra delabitur,

id. ib. 21, 76.—

II.

Transf., in plur. concr. for familiares, intimate acquaintances, friends:

omnes amicitias et familiaritates intra breve tempus afflixit,

Suet. Tib. 51 fin. —In sing.:

e praecipua familiaritate Neronis,

Tac. A. 15, 50.