vitta

Borrowed from Latin vitta.

vitta (plural vittae)

1. A fillet, or garland for the head.
2. (zoology) A longitudinal stripe.
3. (botany) An oil tube in the fruit of some plants.

• weta, witta (Medieval)

From Latin vieō.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈwit.ta/, [ˈwɪt.ta]

vitta f (genitive vittae); first declension

1. band, ribbon
2. fillet, chaplet

First declension.

• Italian: vitta, vetta
• Old French: vete
• Old Portuguese: [Term?]
  • Galician: fita (probably)
  • Portuguese: fita (probably), guita
• Old Spanish: [Term?]
  • Spanish: veta
• Sicilian: vitta
• → English: vitta
• ⇒ Vulgar Latin: *bitta
  • Eastern Romance:
    • Romanian: bată
  • Old Portuguese: [Term?]
    • Portuguese: beta
  • Old Spanish: [Term?]
    • Spanish: beta
• ⇒ Vulgar Latin: *vittula (diminutive)
  • → Albanian: vetull

• vitta in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• vitta in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette