vitalis

See also: Vitalis

Latin

Etymology

From vīta (“life”) +‎ -ālis.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /u̯iːˈtaː.lis/, [u̯iːˈt̪äːlʲɪs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /viˈta.lis/, [viˈt̪äːlis]

Adjective

vītālis (neuter vītāle); third-declension two-termination adjective

1. of or pertaining to life; vital, life-giving

   Synonym: animālis

   Antonym: mortālis

Declension

Third-declension two-termination adjective.

Number	Singular			Plural
Case / Gender	Masc./Fem.	Neuter		Masc./Fem.	Neuter
Nominative	vītālis	vītāle		vītālēs	vītālia
Genitive	vītālis			vītālium
Dative	vītālī			vītālibus
Accusative	vītālem	vītāle		vītālēs vītālīs	vītālia
Ablative	vītālī			vītālibus
Vocative	vītālis	vītāle		vītālēs	vītālia

Derived terms

• vitālia

Descendants

• Asturian: vital, vidaya
• Catalan: vital
• English: vital
• French: vital
• Galician: vital, vidalla
• German: vital
• Italian: vitale
• Portuguese: vital
• Romanian: vital
• Sicilian: vitali
• Spanish: vital

References

• “vitalis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “vitalis”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• vitalis 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)
• vitalis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “vitalis”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray