Affinis, pen. longa. Adiectiuum ex Ad & Finis compositum. Affines. Festus. In sieldes adioyning: next vnto.Affines. Modestinus. In men, of aliaunce by mariage. Affinis, per traoslationem dicitur alicuius rei particeps, & quasi coniunctus ei. Iungitur autem genitiuo vel datiuo. Pertaker: priuie vnto: accesiarie.Affinis alicuius culpæ, & alicui culpæ.Cic.Accessarie: culpable: pertaker of the faulte.Affinis facinori.Cic.Negotijs publicis affinis.Plaut.That is occupied in the cõmon affayres.Noxæ affiuis.Liu. Rei capitalis affinis. Cic.Affinis rerum quas fert adolescentia. Ter. Pertaker of the plcasures of youth: or that youth deliteth.Sceleri, vel sceleris affinis.Cic.Giltie.Suspicionis affinis.Cic.That may instly be suspected.Turpitudini affinis.Cic. Affinia vincula, Hoc est, vincula affinitatis.Ouid.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
af-fīnis (better adf-), e, adj. (abl. adfini, Cic. de Or. 1, 15, 66; once adfine, Ter. Hec. 5, 3, 9; cf. Schneid. Gram. II. 222). I.Lit., that is neighboring or a neighbor to one (ADFINES: in agris vicini, Paul. ex Fest. p. 11 Müll.), bordering on, adjacent, contiguous: gens adfinis Mauris, = confinis, Liv. 28, 17: saevisque adfinis Sarmata Moschis, Luc. 1, 430; also, near by family relationship, allied or related to by marriage, khdestei=s; and subst., a relation by marriage (opp. consanguinei, suggenei=s), as explained by Modestin. Dig. 38, 10, 4: adfines dicuntur viri et uxoris cognati. Adfinium autem nomina sunt socer, socrus, gener, nurus, noverca, vitricus, privignus, privigna, glos, levir, etc.: ego ut essem adfinis tibi, tuam petii gnatam, Att. ap. Paul. ex Fest. s. v. numero, p. 170 Müll. (Trag. Rel. p. 201 Rib.): Megadorus meus adfinis,
my son-in-law
, Plaut. Aul. 3, 4, 14; Ter. Heaut. 5, 1, 63: tu me, adfinem tuum, repulisti, Cic. Red. in Sen. 7: ex tam multis cognatis et adfinibus, id. Clu. 14; id. ad Quir. 5: Caesarem ejus adfinem esse audiebant, Auct. B. Afr. 32: quanto plus propinquorum, quo major adfinium numerus, Tac. G. 20, 9: per propinquos et adfines suos, Suet. Caes. 1: adfinia vincula, Ov. P. 4, 8, 9.—II. Fig., partaking, taking part in, privy to, sharing, associated with; constr. with dat. or gen.; in Pac. with ad: qui sese adfines esse ad causandum volunt, Pac.ap.Non. 89, 11 (Trag. Rel. p. 80 Rib.): publicis negotiis adfinis, i. e. implicitus, particeps,