vicinus
Latin
Etymology
vīcus (“town, street, quarter”) + -īnus (“pertaining to”)
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /u̯iːˈkiː.nus/, [u̯iːˈkiːnʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /viˈt͡ʃi.nus/, [viˈt͡ʃiːnus]
Adjective
vīcīnus (feminine vīcīna, neuter vīcīnum, comparative vīcīnior, adverb vīcīnē); first/second-declension adjective
- (chiefly poetic) near, neighboring
- Synonyms: propinquus, contiguus, fīnitimus, proximus
- Antonyms: longinquus, remōtus
- like, similar, kindred
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
Nominative | vīcīnus | vīcīna | vīcīnum | vīcīnī | vīcīnae | vīcīna | |
Genitive | vīcīnī | vīcīnae | vīcīnī | vīcīnōrum | vīcīnārum | vīcīnōrum | |
Dative | vīcīnō | vīcīnō | vīcīnīs | ||||
Accusative | vīcīnum | vīcīnam | vīcīnum | vīcīnōs | vīcīnās | vīcīna | |
Ablative | vīcīnō | vīcīnā | vīcīnō | vīcīnīs | |||
Vocative | vīcīne | vīcīna | vīcīnum | vīcīnī | vīcīnae | vīcīna |
Noun
vīcīnus m (genitive vīcīnī); second declension
Declension
Second-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | vīcīnus | vīcīnī |
Genitive | vīcīnī | vīcīnōrum |
Dative | vīcīnō | vīcīnīs |
Accusative | vīcīnum | vīcīnōs |
Ablative | vīcīnō | vīcīnīs |
Vocative | vīcīne | vīcīnī |
Derived terms
Descendants
- Corsican: vicinu
- Dalmatian: vičain
- Eastern Romance:
- Istriot: viseîn, visèin
- Italian: vicino
- Ligurian: vixìn, vexìn
- Old French: voisin, veisin (archaic or northern)
- Old Leonese:
- Asturian: vecín
- Old Occitan:
- Old Galician-Portuguese: vizinno, vezinno
- Old Spanish:
- Rhaeto-Romance:
- Sardinian: bichinu, vichinu, bighinu, vighinu, bicinu, bixinu
- Sicilian: vicinu
- Venetian: vissin, vizin, vesin
- → Albanian: fqinj
See also
References
- “vicinus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “vicinus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- vicinus 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)
- vicinus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.