(adj.adv.) : germānus, a, um, adj.v. germen, of brothers and sisters who have the same parents, or at least the same father
* Full, own (very freq. and class.).
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* Adj.: spes mihi est vos inventuros fratres germanos duos Geminos, una matre natos et patre uno uno die,Plaut. Men. 5, 9, 43: frater,id. Capt. 5, 4, 18; Ter. And. 1, 5, 57; Cic. Font. 17, 36; Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 49, § 128; v. frater; and cf.: L. Cicero frater noster, cognatione patruelis, amore germanus,Cic. Fin. 5, 1, 1: soror germana,Plaut. Aul. 2, 1, 3; id. Truc. 2, 4, 87; Cic. Mil. 27, 73; Nep. Cim. 1: bimembres (i. e. Centauri),Ov. M. 12, 240.—Poet., to denote intimate friendship: soror, of a nurse, Enn. ap. Cic. Div. 1, 20, 40 (Ann. v. 42 Vahl.); cf. also absol.: germana, ib. (v. 48 Vahl.).
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* Of or belonging to brothers and sisters, brotherly, sisterly (very rare); nunc tu mihi amicus es in germanum modum,Plaut. Cas. 3, 4, 25; so, casus (fratrum),Just. 27, 3 fin.
* In gen., genuine, real, actual, true (a favorite expression of Cicero): illi veteres germanique Campani,Cic. Agr. 2, 35, 97: germanos se putant esse Thucydidas,id. Or. 9, 32: magni et germani Attici,id. ib. 26, 90: germani hujus artis magistri,id. de Or. 2, 38, 160; germani Luperci,id. Cael. 11, 26: scio me asinum germanum fuisse,id. Att. 4, 5, 3: di (te) omnes perdant, oboluisti allium, Germana illuvies, rusticus, hircus, hara suis,Plaut. Most. 1, 1, 39: haec est mea et hujus fratris mei germana patria: hinc enim orti stirpe antiquissima sumus,Cic. Leg. 2, 1, 3: ille Theodoromedes fuit germano nomine,Plaut. Capt. 2, 2, 38: germana justitia,Cic. Off. 3, 17, 69: haec germana ironia est,id. Brut. 86, 296: gerrae germanae,Plaut. Poen. 1, 1, 9.—Sup.: germanissimus Stoicus,Cic. Ac. 2, 43, 132.—Hence, adv.: germāne, faithfully, truly: germane fraterneque rescribere,Cic. Q. Fr. 2, 15, b, 2; August. Civ. Dei, 2, 13.

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