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vicis

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vicis

  1. plural of vici

Latin

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Etymology 1

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From Proto-Indo-European *weyk- (to curve, bend).[1] Cognate with vinciō, Ancient Greek εἴκω (eíkō), English week, German Wechsel (change), Northern Sami viker (willow twig, wand), Old Norse vikja (to bend, turn), Old English wician (to yield, give way), wice (wych elm), Sanskrit विष्टी (viṣṭī, changeable, changing).

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Noun

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vicis f (genitive, third declension)

  1. change, alternation, turn
    in vicemmutually, reciprocally
  2. time, instance
  3. (by extension) season
  4. succession
  5. condition, lot
  6. the position, room, place, stead, post, office or duty of one person assumed by another
Declension
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Third-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative vicēs
genitive vicis
dative vicī vicibus
accusative vicem vicēs
ablative vice vicibus
vocative
Derived terms
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Descendants
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See vice for further descendants.

  • Insular Romance:
    • Sardinian: vicanu, bicaniu
  • Italo-Dalmatian:
  • Rhaeto-Romance:
  • Gallo-Italic:
  • Gallo-Romance:
  • Occitano-Romance:
  • Ibero-Romance:
  • Vulgar Latin: *vicenda

Etymology 2

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Noun

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vīcīs m

  1. dative/ablative plural of vīcus (village, municipal)

References

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  1. ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “vicis”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 674-5