vicine

English

Etymology 1

From translingual Vicia +‎ -ine.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈvɪsɪn/, /ˈvɪsiːn/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

vicine (uncountable)

1. (organic chemistry) An alkaloid extracted from the seeds of the vetch (Vicia sativa), as well as other species of Vicia. It is a white crystalline substance.

Etymology 2

From Latin vīcīnus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈvɪsɪn/, /ˈvɪsaɪn/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -ɪsaɪn

Adjective

vicine (comparative more vicine, superlative most vicine)

1. (obsolete) Nearby; neighbouring; vicinal.
   • 1665, Joseph Glanvill, Scepsis Scientifica: Or, Confest Ignorance, the Way to Science; […], London: […] E. C[otes] for Henry Eversden […], →OCLC:

     it's difficult to apprehend , but that these avennues should in a short time be stopped up by the pressure of other parts of the matter , through its natural gravity , or other alterations made in the Brain : And the opening of other vicine passages might quickly obliterate any tracks of these ; as the making of one hole in the yielding mud , defaces the print of another near it

   • 1724, Captain Charles Johnson, A General History of the Pyrates:

     If there may be allowed any general Way of calculating their Time, they happen from the Course of the Sun, as it respects the Æquinoctial only; for if these Æquinoxes prove rainy Seasons all over the World (as I am apt to think they are) whatever secret Cause operates with that Station of the Sun to produce them, will more effectually do it in those vicine Latitudes

References

• “vicine”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /viˈt͡ʃi.ne/
• Rhymes: -ine
• Hyphenation: vi‧cì‧ne

Noun

vicine f

1. plural of vicina

Adjective

vicine

1. feminine plural of vicino

Anagrams

• evinci, nevici

Latin

Etymology 1

From vīcīnus (“near, neighboring”) +‎ -ē.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [wiːˈkiː.neː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [viˈt͡ʃiː.ne]

Adverb

vīcīnē (comparative vīcīnius, superlative vīcīnissimē)

1. nearby, in the neighborhood

Related terms

• vīcīna
• vīcīnālis
• vīcīnia
• vīcīnitās
• vīcīnor
• vīcīnum
• vīcīnus

Etymology 2

Inflected form of vīcīnus (“near, neighboring”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [wiːˈkiː.nɛ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [viˈt͡ʃiː.ne]

Noun

vīcīne

1. vocative singular of vīcīnus

References

• “vicine”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “vicine”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.