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Yes. The word amicus is a Scrabble US word. The word amicus is worth 10 points in Scrabble:

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6-letter words (3 found)

AMICUS,AMUSIC,UMIACS,

5-letter words (8 found)

CAMIS,CAMUS,CAUMS,MICAS,MUSCA,MUSIC,SUMAC,UMIAC,

4-letter words (18 found)

AIMS,AMIS,AMUS,ASCI,CAMI,CAMS,CAUM,CUMS,MACS,MASU,MICA,MICS,SAIC,SAIM,SCAM,SCUM,SIMA,SUMI,

3-letter words (23 found)

AIM,AIS,AMI,AMU,CAM,CIS,CUM,ISM,MAC,MAS,MIC,MIS,MUS,SAC,SAI,SAM,SAU,SIC,SIM,SMA,SUI,SUM,UMS,

2-letter words (10 found)

AI,AM,AS,IS,MA,MI,MU,SI,UM,US,

You can make 62 words from amicus according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of amicus

amicus

Etymology

Abbreviation of amicus curiae.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈæm.ɪ.kəs/, /ə.ˈmi.kəs/

Noun

amicus (plural amici)

  1. (law, informal) Someone not a party to a case who submits a brief and/or presents oral argument in that case.

Synonyms

  • amicus curiae (formal)

Anagrams

  • Casium, Macusi, Muisca, amusic, musaic, umiacs

Latin

Etymology

From the root of amō (“I love”), perhaps with Proto-Indo-European *-ih₁ (instrumental suffix) + *-kos, as also in pudīcus, mendīcus.

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /aˈmiː.kus/, [äˈmiːkʊs̠]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /aˈmi.kus/, [äˈmiːkus]

Adjective

amīcus (feminine amīca, neuter amīcum, comparative amīcior, superlative amīcissimus, adverb amīcē); first/second-declension adjective

  1. friendly, well-disposed, amicable
  2. loyal, devoted to
  3. supporting, propitious, helpful
  4. welcome, dear

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

Noun

amīcus m (genitive amīcī, feminine amīca); second declension

  1. male friend
    Synonyms: necessārius, comes, sodālis, concordia
    amīcum parāre ― to make a friend; to befriend
  2. (Augustan and later) courtier, minister, counsellor

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Derived terms

Descendants

References

  • “amīcus” on page 130 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (2nd ed., 2012)
  • De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “amō”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7)‎[1], Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN

Further reading

  • “amicus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “amicus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • amicus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • amicus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎[2], London: Macmillan and Co.

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