vivat

From Latin vīvat.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈviːvæt/, /ˈvaɪvæt/

vivat

1. A cry wishing someone long life and prosperity.
   • 1837 Thomas Carlyle, The French Revolution: A History

     The King swears; and now be the welkin split with vivats[.]

   • 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin 2003, p. 338:

     The magistrates were mobbed by vivat-yelling crowds, some 10,000 of whom made their way to the Bastille where they clamoured for Rohan's release.

vivat m (plural vivats)

1. (chiefly in the plural) cheer

• “vivat” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

vīvat

1. third-person singular present active subjunctive of vīvō; long live