vicis

Catalan

Noun

vicis

1. plural of vici

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Latin

Etymology 1

From Proto-Indo-European *weyk- (“to curve, bend”). 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”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈu̯i.kis/, [ˈu̯ɪkɪs̠]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈvi.t͡ʃis/, [ˈviːt͡ʃis]

Noun

vicis f (genitive, third declension)

1. change, alternation, turn

   in vicem ― mutually, reciprocally

2. time, instance
3. (by extension) season
4. succession
5. condition, lot

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	—	vicēs
Genitive	vicis	—
Dative	vicī	vicibus
Accusative	vicem	vicēs
Ablative	vice	vicibus
Vocative	—	—

Note: some cases do not occur due to the collocational/syntactic limitations of this word.

Derived terms

• invicem
• vicārius
• vicem gerere
• vice versā
• vicissim
• vicissitūdō

 

Descendants

• Italo-Romance:
  • Italian: vece,
    • → Sardinian: veci
• Padanian:
  • ⇒ Friulian: vecis (?)
• Northern Gallo-Romance:
  • Franco-Provençal: vês, vouês
• Southern Gallo-Romance:
  • Old Occitan: vetz
    • Gascon: vetz
    • Limousin: vetz
  • Old Catalan: veu
• Ibero-Romance:
  • Asturian: vez
  • Extremaduran: ves
  • Galician: vez
  • Mirandese: beç
  • Portuguese: vez; → vice, vis-
  • Spanish: vez
• ⇒ Sardinian: vicanu, bicaniu
• Latin: vices
  • Franco-Provençal: fês
  • Old French: foiz, feiz
    • Middle French: foys
      • French: fois
        • → Esperanto: fojo
  • Occitan: fes
• Vulgar Latin: *vicenda
  • Italian: vicenda
    • → Ligurian: vicénda
• Vulgar Latin: *vicata
  • Northern Gallo-Romance:
    • Old French: fiée
      • → Old Italian: fiata
  • Southern Gallo-Romance:
    • Aragonese: vegada ⇒ alavegada (“then”) (Ribagorçan)
    • Catalan: vegada
    • Occitan: vegada
  • Ibero-Romance:
    • Asturian: vegada, vegáa
    • Galician: vegada (dated)

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈu̯iː.kiːs/, [ˈu̯iːkiːs̠]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈvi.t͡ʃis/, [ˈviːt͡ʃis]

Noun

vīcīs

1. dative plural of vīcus
2. ablative plural of vīcus

References

• vicis in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• vicis in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• vicis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • I am sorry for you: tuam vicem doleo
    
• Pokorny, Julius (1959) Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume III, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 1130
• Dizionario Latino, Olivetti