vilicus

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Latin[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From villa.

Noun[edit]

vīlicus m (genitive vīlicī); second declension

  1. bailiff, steward of a farm/estate
  2. villager

Declension[edit]

Second-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative vīlicus vīlicī
Genitive vīlicī vīlicōrum
Dative vīlicō vīlicīs
Accusative vīlicum vīlicōs
Ablative vīlicō vīlicīs
Vocative vīlice vīlicī

Derived terms[edit]

Descendants[edit]

  • Italian: villico
  • Portuguese: vílico

References[edit]

  • vilicus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • vilicus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • vilicus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • vilicus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • vilicus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers