vitis
See also: Vitis
Friulian
Latin
Etymology 1
From Proto-Indo-European *wéh₁itis (“that which twines or bends, branch, switch”), from *weh₁y- (“to turn, wind, bend”). See Latin vieō and English withe.
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈwiː.tis/, [ˈwiː.tɪs]
Noun
vītis f (genitive vītis); third declension
- vine
- c. 160-220 CE, Tertullian, De Judicio Domini, 22
- quid faciat laetis ut vitis abaestuet uvis
- What makes a vine hang down richly with grapes
- quid faciat laetis ut vitis abaestuet uvis
- (historical) a vine staff, the baton or cane of a Roman centurion
Declension
Third-declension noun (i-stem).
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | vītis | vītēs |
Genitive | vītis | vītium |
Dative | vītī | vītibus |
Accusative | vītem | vītēs vītīs |
Ablative | vīte | vītibus |
Vocative | vītis | vītēs |
Descendants
- Aromanian: ayitã, yiti, yitsã
- Asturian: vide
- Dalmatian: vaita
- English: vise, vice
- Franco-Provençal: vit
- French: vis
- Friulian: vît
- Irish: bís
- Istriot: veîda
- Italian: vite
- Occitan: vitz, vit
- Piedmontese: vis
- Portuguese: vide
- Romanian: viță
- Sardinian: bide, vide
- Sicilian: viti
- Spanish: vid
- Venetian: vida, vide
Etymology 2
Inflected form of vīta (“life”)
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈwiː.tiːs/
References
- vitis in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- vitis in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- vitis in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
- vitis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
- vitis in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
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