vivo

From vivi (“to live”) +‎ -o (nominal suffix).

• IPA^(key): /ˈvivo/

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• Hyphenation: vi‧vo

vivo (accusative singular vivon, plural vivoj, accusative plural vivojn)

1. life

   Antonym: morto

• vivi (“to live”)

From Old Portuguese vivo, from Latin vīvus (“alive, living”).

vivo m (feminine singular viva, masculine plural vivos, feminine plural vivas)

1. alive, living

• vivir

Inflected form of vivir.

vivo

1. first-person singular present indicative of vivir

From Esperanto vivo.

vivo (plural vivi)

1. life

From Latin vīvus (“alive”, “living”), from Proto-Italic *gʷīwos, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *gʷih₃wós (“alive”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈvi.vo/, [ˈviːvo]
• Hyphenation: vì‧vo

vivo (feminine singular viva, masculine plural vivi, feminine plural vive)

1. alive, live
2. brisk, animate, vivacious
3. vivid, intense, brilliant

vivo m (plural vivi)

1. living person

vivo

1. first-person singular present of vivere

• vivere

• ovvi

From Proto-Italic *gʷīwō, from Proto-Indo-European *gʷíh₃weti (“to live”). The x and c in vīxī and vīctum were introduced by analogy with other verbs.

Cognate with Old English cwic (“alive”) (English quick), Old Church Slavonic жити (žiti), Ancient Greek βίος (bíos), Sanskrit जीवति (jīvati).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈwiː.woː/
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈvi.vo/, [ˈviː.vo]

vīvō (present infinitive vīvere, perfect active vīxī, supine vīctum); third conjugation

1. I live
   • 63 BCE, Cicero, Catiline Orations Oratio in Catilinam Prima in Senatu Habita.2:

     O tempora, o mores! Senatus haec intellegit, consul videt; hic tamen vivit. Vivit?

     Shame on the age and on its principles! The senate is aware of these things; the consul sees them; and yet this man lives. Lives!

   • 63 BCE, Cicero, Catiline Orations Oratio in Catilinam Prima in Senatu Habita.1:

     Quam diu quisquam erit qui te defendere audeat, vives, et vives ita ut nunc vivis, multis meis et firmis praesidiis obsessus ne commovere te contra rem publicam possis. Multorum te etiam oculi et aures non sentientem, sicut adhuc fecerunt, speculabuntur atque custodient.

     As long as one person exists who can dare to defend you, you shall live; you shall live as you do now, surrounded by my many and trustworthy guards, so that you shall not be able to stir one finger against the republic: many eyes and ears shall still observe and watch you, as they have hitherto done, though you shall not perceive them.

2. I am alive, I survive
3. I reside in
   • 63 BCE, Cicero, Catiline Orations Oratio in Catilinam Prima in Senatu Habita.9:

     O di immortales, ubinam gentium sumus? Quam rem publicam habemus? In qua urbe vivimus?

     O ye immortal gods, where on earth are we? What is the government we have? In what city are we living?

This verb is essentially intransitive, and thus has no passive forms. However, some limited passive use is attested:

• impersonal passive use: “negat Epicurus, jucunde posse vivi, nisi cum virtute vivatur”: "Epicurus says we cannot live pleasantly unless we live virtuously" (Cic. Tusc. 3, 20, 49)
• very rare personal passive use in poetry: “nunc tertia vivitur aetas” (Ov. M. 12, 187)

In later Latin, forms such as vivuntur or vivebantur are attested.

• spīrō

• vīvus

• Aragonese: bibir
• → Esperanto: vivi
• Franco-Provençal: vivre
• Friulian: vivi
• Italian: vivere
• Old Leonese:
  • Asturian: vivir
  • Mirandese: bibir
• Old French: vivre
  • Bourguignon: vivre
  • Middle French: vivre
    • French: vivre
  • Norman: vivre (Jersey)
• Old Occitan: viure
  • Catalan: viure
  • Occitan: viure
• Old Portuguese: viver
  • Galician: vivir
  • Portuguese: viver
    • → Haitian Creole: vèvè
      • → English: veve
    • → Papiamentu: biba
• Old Spanish: bivir, viver
  • Ladin: bivir, viver
  • Spanish: vivir
• Romanian: via
• Romansch: viver
• Sardinian: bívere, vívere
• Sicilian: vìviri
• Tarantino: vivere
• Venetian: vìvar, viver
• Walloon: viker (from first-person singular perfect active indicative vīxī)

• vivo in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• vivo in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• vivo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to live in the country: ruri vivere, rusticari
    
  • to live from day to day: in diem vivere
    
  • as long as I live: dum vita suppetit; dum (quoad) vivo
    
  • to be ten years old: decem annos vixisse
    
  • happiness, bliss: beata vita, beate vivere, beatum esse
    
  • to live in great affluence: in omnium rerum abundantia vivere
    
  • to be at leisure: in otio esse or vivere
    
  • to live on meat, fish, by plunder: vivere carne, piscibus, rapto (Liv. 7. 25)
    
  • to live on one's means: de suo (opp. alieno) vivere
    
  • I have no means, no livelihood: non habeo, qui (unde) vivam
    
  • to live well: laute vivere (Nep. Chab. 3. 2)
    
  • to live a luxurious and effeminate life: delicate ac molliter vivere
    
  • to be on friendly terms with a person: vivere cum aliquo
    
  • to live in solitude: in solitudine vivere (Fin. 3. 20. 65)
    
  • to live to oneself: secum vivere
    
  • to live with some one on an equal footing: aequo iure vivere cum aliquo
    
  • (ambiguous) the necessaries of life: quae ad victum pertinent
    
  • (ambiguous) things indispensable to a life of comfort: res ad victum cultumque necessariae
    
  • (ambiguous) a livelihood: quae suppeditant ad victum (Off. 1. 4. 12)
    
  • (ambiguous) to earn a livelihood by something: victum aliqua re quaerere
    
  • (ambiguous) to be defeated in fight, lose the battle: proelio vinci, superari, inferiorem, victum discedere
    
• Sihler, Andrew L. (1995) New Comparative Grammar of Greek and Latin, Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN

From Old Portuguese vivo, from Latin vīvus, from Proto-Italic *gʷīwos, from Proto-Indo-European *gʷih₃wós.

• IPA^(key): /ˈvi.vu/
• (South Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈvi.vo/

vivo m (feminine singular viva, masculine plural vivos, feminine plural vivas, comparable)

1. alive (having life; not dead)

   Antonym: morto

2. lively; vivacious

   Synonym: vivaz

3. (linguistics, of a language or lect) having native speakers

   Antonym: morto

4. strong (highly stimulating to the senses)

   Synonym: forte

   Antonym: fraco

vivo

1. first-person singular (eu) present indicative of viver

From Latin vīvus (“alive, living”), from Proto-Italic *gʷīwos, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *gʷih₃wós (“alive”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈbibo/, [ˈbiβo]

vivo (feminine singular viva, masculine plural vivos, feminine plural vivas) (superlative vivísimo)

1. living, alive

   Antonym: muerto

2. vivid

vivo

1. First-person singular (yo) present indicative form of vivir.
2. First-person singular (yo) present indicative form of vivar.