germānĭtas (noun F) : 1. germanus
* The relation between brothers and sisters, brotherhood, sisterhood.
* Lit.: moveant te horum lacrimae, moveat pietas, moveat germanitas,Cic. Lig. 11, 33: subituram vobis aliquando germanitatis memoriam (between Perseus and Demetrius as sons of Philip),Liv. 40, 8, 10: nexus germanitatis,the bond of sisterhood,App. M. 2, p. 115; cf.: inter Judam et Israël,brotherhood, amity,Vulg. Zech. 11, 14.
* Transf.
* The relationship of the inhabitants of cities which are colonies of one mother-city: ab ea germanitate fraternam sibi cum iis caritatem esse,Liv. 37, 56, 7.
* Of inanim. and abstr. things, a union, resemblance, similarity: unde nomen ambobus (Bosporis) et jam quaedam in dissociatione germanitas concors,Plin. 6, 1, 1, § 2: malorum,id. 15, 14, 15, § 51: vini,id. 14, 6, 8, § 59: digitorum, speciosa germanitas, of the toes, Lact. Opif. Dei, 13, 8.
* A sister: germanitatis stupra,Cic. Har. Resp. 20, 42; App. M. 5, p. 171, 5.

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