vicus

From Latin vīcus (“village”). Doublet of wick.

vicus (plural vici)

1. (historical) A small civilian settlement outside a Roman fort.

From Proto-Indo-European *weyḱ- (“village”)

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈwiː.kus/, [ˈwiː.kʊs]

vīcus m (genitive vīcī); second declension

1. street; quarter, neighbourhood; row of houses
2. village; hamlet
3. municipal section or ward, farm

Second declension.

• English: vicus, vicinal, vicinity
• Breton: gwig
• Catalan: Vic
• Cornish: gwig
• Galician: Vigo
• Germanic: *wīkō
  • Old Dutch: *wīk
    • Dutch: wijk
  • Old English: wic
    • English: wick, -wich
  • Old Frisian: wīk
  • Old High German: wīh
  • Old Saxon: wīk
    • Middle Low German: wîk
• Italian: vico
• Portuguese: vico
• Romansh: vitg
• Spanish: vigo, vico

• vīcus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• vicus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• vicus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• vīcus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette: “1,673/3”
• vicus in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• vicus in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
• “uīcus” on page 2,058 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)
• Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976), “vicus”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: Brill, pages 1,097–1,100