vicis

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 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 & 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 (1934), Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (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