vicis

Catalan

Noun

vicis

1. plural of vici

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Latin

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈwi.kis/, [ˈwɪ.kɪs]

Noun

— f (genitive vicis); third declension

1. change, alternation, turn
2. succession
3. condition, lot

Inflection

Third declension.

Case	Singular	Plural
nominative	—	vicēs
genitive	vicis	vicum
dative	vicī	vicibus
accusative	vicem	vicēs
ablative	vice	vicibus
vocative	—	vicēs

The nominative and vocative singular do not occur.

Related terms

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

Descendants

• Aragonese: vegada
• Asturian: vegada, vez
• Catalan: vegada
• Esperanto: fojo

• Extremaduran: ves
• French: fois
• Galician: vez, vegada
• Italian: vece

• Mirandese: beç
• Old Provençal: vetz
• Portuguese: vez, vis-, vice
• Spanish: vez

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 Félix Gaffiot’s Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette (1934)
• 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