vitis

See also: Vitis

Friulian

Noun

vitis

  1. plural of vite

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

  1. vine
    • c. 37 BCE – 30 BCE, Virgil, Georgicon 4.269
      vel psithia passos de vite racemos
      […] or dried clusters of grapes from Psithian vine[s]
    • 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
  2. (historical) a vine staff, the baton or cane of a Roman centurion
Inflection

Third declension i-stem.

Case Singular Plural
nominative vītis vītēs
genitive vītis vītium
dative vītī vītibus
accusative vītem vītēs
ablative vīte vītibus
vocative vītis vītēs
Descendants

Etymology 2

Inflected form of vīta (“life”)

Pronunciation

Noun

vītīs

  1. dative plural of vīta
  2. ablative plural of vīta

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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