Amity is friendly relations between people or nations. Live in amity, a treaty of amity, restore amity.
It is formal and now chiefly diplomatic — treaties of amity and commerce were a standard eighteenth-century form and the phrase survives in the names of old agreements. On its own the word is archaic. Note enmity, which is its exact opposite and much commoner; and that amity comes from the Latin for a friend, like amiable and amicable.
1nounamityFriendly relations between people or nations.
“The treaty began a long period of amity between the two old enemies.”
amity is friendly relations.
The Latin is love, the same love in amateur, who does the thing for love alone. Amity is two sides at peace with each other.
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Old French amistié comes from a Vulgar Latin form of amicitia, friendship, from amicus, a friend. Amiable, amicable and enemy come from the same friend.
Latin
amīcus — friend
Vulgar Latin
*amicitas
Old French
amisté
Middle English
amite
English, today
amity
Built from
From Middle English amite, from Old French amisté, amitie, amistiet, from Vulgar Latin amicitas, derived from Latin amīcus (“friend”), from amō (“love”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA