vitis

See also: Vitis

Friulian

Noun

vitis

1. plural of vite

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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 Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈu̯iː.tis/, [ˈu̯iːt̪ɪs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈvi.tis/, [ˈviːt̪is]

Noun

vītis f (genitive vītis); third declension

1. vine, grapevine
   • c. 37 BCE – 30 BCE, Virgil, Georgics 4.269:

     vel psithia passos de vite racemos

     […] or dried clusters of grapes from Psithian vine[s]

   • c. 160-220 C.E., 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 (made of grapevine) of a Roman centurion
3. any vine
   • c. 500 CE, Palladius, Opus Agriculturae 4.9.9:

     Si eius [cucumeris] florem, sicut in vite sua est, in forma fictili clauseris ac ligaris, […]

     If you close and tie its [the cucumber plant's] flower in a clay mold, as it is on its own vine, […]

Declension

Third-declension noun (i-stem).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	vītis	vītēs
Genitive	vītis	vītium
Dative	vītī	vītibus
Accusative	vītem	vītēs vītīs
Ablative	vīte	vītibus
Vocative	vītis	vītēs

Descendants

• Aromanian: ayitã, yiti, yitsã
• Asturian: vide
• Catalan: vit
• Dalmatian: vaita
• Franco-Provençal: vit
• Old French: vis, viz
  • → Middle English: vis, vys
    • English: vise, vice
      • → Japanese: バイス
  • French: vis
    • → Catalan: vis
    • → Dutch: vijs f
    • → Vietnamese: vít
  • → Irish: bís
• Friulian: vît
• Istriot: veîda
• Italian: vite
  • → Ottoman Turkish: ویده
    • Turkish: vida
• Occitan: vitz, vit
• Piedmontese: vis
• Old Galician-Portuguese: vide
  • Galician: vide
  • Portuguese: vide
• Romanian: viță
• Sardinian: bide, vide
• Sicilian: viti
• Spanish: vid
• Venetan: vida, vide
• ⇒ Vulgar Latin: *viticella
  • Catalan: vidiella

Etymology 2

Inflected form of vīta (“life”)

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈu̯iː.tiːs/, [ˈu̯iːt̪iːs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈvi.tis/, [ˈviːt̪is]

Noun

(deprecated template usage) vītīs

1. dative/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 with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 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