vie

See also: VIE and vi'e

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Old French envier.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /vaɪ/
  • Rhymes: -aɪ

Verb

vie (third-person singular simple present vies, present participle vying, simple past and past participle vied)

  1. (intransitive) To fight for superiority; to contend; to compete eagerly so as to gain something.
    Her suitors were all vying for her attention.
    • Addison
      In a trading nation, the younger sons may be placed in such a way of life as […] to vie with the best of their family.
  2. (transitive, archaic) To rival (something), etc.
    • 1608, William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra
      But, if there be, or ever were, one such, / It's past the size of dreaming: nature wants stuff / To vie strange forms with fancy; yet, to imagine / An Antony, were nature's piece 'gainst fancy, / Condemning shadows quite.
  3. (transitive) To do or produce in emulation, competition, or rivalry; to put in competition; to bandy.
    • Shakespeare
      She hung about my neck; and kiss on kiss / She vied so fast.
    • Milton
      Nor was he set over us to vie wisdom with his Parliament, but to be guided by them.
    • Herbert
      And vying malice with my gentleness, / Pick quarrels with their only happiness.
  4. To stake; to wager.
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Ben Jonson to this entry?)
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Shakespeare to this entry?)
  5. To stake a sum of money upon a hand of cards, as in the old game of gleek. See revie.

Synonyms

Antonyms

Translations

Noun

vie (plural vies)

  1. (obsolete) A contest.

Anagrams

Finnish

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈʋie̯/
  • Hyphenation: vie

Verb

vie

  1. Third-person singular indicative present form of viedä.

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈʋie̯ˣ/
  • Hyphenation: vie

Verb

vie

  1. Indicative present connegative form of viedä.
  2. Second-person singular imperative present form of viedä.
  3. Second-person singular imperative present connegative form of viedä.

Anagrams

French

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /vi/
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Etymology 1

From Old French vie, from Latin vīta, from Proto-Italic *gʷītā.

Noun

vie f (plural vies)

  1. life, the state of organisms (organic beings) prior to death
  2. life, period in which one is alive, between birth and death
  3. biography, life
  4. life, lifeforms
    L’apparition de la vie sur Terre
  5. cost of living
    La vie a drôlement augmenté depuis quelque temps : il ne me reste plus grand-chose quand j’ai payé tous les impôts.

Derived terms
Descendants
  • Antillean Creole: vi
  • Guianese Creole: lavi
  • Haitian Creole: lavi
  • Louisiana Creole French: vi
  • Seychellois Creole: lavi

Etymology 2

Ultimately from Latin via. Compare voie.

Noun

vie f (plural vies)

  1. (Switzerland, Jura) way, path (road, railway, etc)

Further reading

Italian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈviː.e/

Noun

vie f

  1. plural of via

Anagrams

Latin

Verb

viē

  1. second-person singular present active imperative of vieō

Manx

Adjective

vie

  1. Lenited form of mie.

Mutation

Manx mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
mie vie unchanged
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

  • Mark Abley, Spoken Here: Travels Among Threatened Languages (2003)

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Old Norse vígja

Verb

vie (imperative vi, present tense vier, simple past vigde or vidde or via or viet, past participle vigd or vidd or via or viet)

  1. dedicate something to someone or towards a cause
  2. wed two persons into marriage

Derived terms

References

Old French

Etymology

From Latin vīta.

Noun

vie f (oblique plural vies, nominative singular vie, nominative plural vies)

  1. life
    circa 1170, Chrétien de Troyes, Érec et Énide:
    Mout avoit changiee sa vie
    Much had it changed his life

Descendants

Romanian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈvi.e/

Etymology 1

From Latin vīnea.

Noun

vie f (plural vii)

  1. vineyard
  2. vine
Declension
Synonyms

Etymology 2

Forms of the adjective viu.

Adjective

vie

  1. feminine singular nominative form of viu
  2. feminine singular accusative form of viu
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