Vicínitas, pen. cor. vicinitâtis, f. g. Cic.The company of neighbours dwelling nigh one. Vicinitas & confinium. Ci. Vicinitas personat quotidiano cantu vocum, vide PERSONO Vicinitas.Cic.Neighbourhoode: nighuesse: likenesse.Versari in vicinitate.Cic.To bee very neare a thing.Syluæ vicinitas. Plin. The nighnesse.Nominis vicinitas, Plin.Greate likenesse of one name to an other.Virtutibus ac vitijs vicinitas quæarn est. Quint. Vertues and vices haue a certaine likenesse one with an other.Artium studiorumque quasi finitima vicinitas.Cicer.Nares non sine causa vicinitatem oris secutæ sunt. Ci. Not without good cause the nose is placed so nere the mouth.Cum ciuibus vicinitas. Cice.
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vīcīnĭtas, ātis, f. [id.], neighborhood, nearness, proximity, vicinity (class.). I.Lit.: vel virtus tua me vel vicinitas Facit, ut te audacter moneam, etc., Ter. Heaut. 1, 1, 4: propter vicinitatem totos dies simul eramus, Cic. Att. 5, 10, 5: scire hoc propter vicinitatem facile possum, id. Planc. 8, 19; cf.: quorum et vicinitas propinqua et multitudo esset infinita, Hirt. B. G. 8, 7.—Plur.: amicitiae, consuetudines, vicinitates, clientelae, ludi denique ... quid haberent voluptatis, etc., Cic. Red. Quir. 1, 3; cf. B. 2. infra.—B.Transf., concr. 1.The neighborhood, vicinity, region: in Umbriā atque in eā vicinitate, Cic. Rosc. Am. 16, 48.—2.Neighborhood, i. q. neighbors (class.): si te libenter vicinitas videbit, Cato, R. R. 4: signum, quod erat notum vicinitati, Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 44, 96; id. Rab. Perd. 3, 8: caritas serpit foras cognationibus primum, tum affinitatibus, deinde amicitiis, post vicinitatibus, id. Fin. 5, 23, 65; id. Planc. 9, 22; id. Rab. Perd. 3, 8; id. Rosc. Am. 6, 15; Caes. B. G. 6, 34; Nep. Alcib. 10, 3; Sall. C. 36, 1; Suet. Aug. 6; Plin. 18, 6, 8, 41.— Cf. plur.: conveniet autem cum in dando munificum esse, tum in exigendo non acerbum, in omnique re contrahendā ... vicinitatibus et confiniis aequum, Cic. Off. 2, 18, 64.—II.Trop., near likeness, resemblance, similarity, congeniality, affinity: est quaedam inter epichirema et syllogismum vicinitas, Quint. 5, 10, 6: virtutibus ac vitiis, id. 3, 7, 25: excusantur vitia vicinitate vitiorum, id. 1, 5, 5: nominis (cyperi et cypiri), Plin. 21, 18, 69, 115.