What is the latin for "family", "friends" and "self"/"individual"?

Question

This summer I got the word "Aequitas" tattooed down my left leg. I'd now like to complement that with Latin translations of the words above, each as an individual statement.

Also, what's the difference between "amici", "amicus" and "amicitia", all of which I have seen for "friend" or "friendship"?

Oh, and I didn't want them all to tie in. Each one is an individual statement of something I believe in

Answer 1

Not sue I understand what you're after. Aequitas is justice, equity, fairness, etc. Do you want the words to tie in to this in any way? That might case the endings to change.
At any rate, the nominative forms are;

Family = familia (as the household family) or sanguinis (family related by blood).

Friends = amici

Self = Tough one - no direct Latin equivalent as a stand alone word. Closest would be 'homo', which means 'man', but also is used for 'person, individual'. However, that's probably not a good choice for obvious reasons.

Maybe 'solus', an adjective, standing for the sole one.

ADDED: Latin had cases and number. The endings on the nouns tell you the function in the sentence and whether it's singular or plural. The cases are: nominative - subject of sentence; genitvie - possive; dative - indirect object; accusative - direct object; ablative - agent. That's a thumbnail sketch. Words are, by practice, given in the nominative case. Plus, all words have gender - which does not necessarily relate to the sex of whatever the noun is. And yet one more - some nouns have different forms if the person is male or female - and friend is one of those.

Amicus = Friend, nominative singular.If you go to a dictionary, this is the word you will see listed for 'friend'.

Amica = Female friend, nom sing. May also mean sweetheart or even mistress.

Amici = Friends, nominative plural. This may be a group all male or mixed male/female, but not all female.

Amicae = Friends, nom plural, more than one friend, all female.

Amicitia = Friendship. The Latin '-tia' ending fills the same role as the '-ship' ending in English in this case. This noun happens to be a feminine noun, but that's just to tell you how the endings work - has nothing to do with the sex of the individuals. It does not change for male vs, female.

As you can see, Latin is different.

Answer 2

Self is "ego". Technically, that means I, but "ipse" (self) is a reflexive, and not normally used by itself. It does look prettier than ego though =)

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Amici is plural, amicus is singular, amicitia is friendship, rather than friend.

Answer 3

family=familia
friends=amicus