vim

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[edit] Etymology

1843, possibly from the Latin vim, accusative of vis (“power, energy”) (from which English vis); perhaps a modern imitative of the Latin.[1]

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vim (plural vims)

  1. Ready vitality and vigor.
    • 1999, Neil Gaiman, Stardust, p. 58 (2001 Perennial paperback edition)
    • But the youth of today were a pasty lot, with none of the get-up-and-go, none of the vigor and vim that he remembered from the days when he was young…

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  1. ^ “vim” in the Online Etymology Dictionary, Douglas Harper, 2001

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vim

  1. accusative singular of vīs

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[edit] Verb

vim (infinitive: vir)

  1. First-person singular (eu) preterite indicative of verb vir.
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