vie

See also: VIE, Vie, vi'e, вие, and Вие

Translingual

Symbol

vie

1. (international standards) ISO 639-2 & ISO 639-3 language code for Vietnamese.

English

Etymology

Aphetic form of envy.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /vaɪ/
• Rhymes: -aɪ

• Audio (UK):

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Verb

vie (third-person singular simple present vies, present participle vying or vieing, simple past and past participle vied)

1. (intransitive) To fight for superiority; to contend; to compete eagerly so as to gain something.

   Her suitors were all vying for her attention.

   • 1711 July 15 (Gregorian calendar), [Joseph Addison; Richard Steele et al.], “WEDNESDAY, July 4, 1711”, in The Spectator, number 109; republished in Alexander Chalmers, editor, The Spectator; a New Edition, […], volume II, New York, N.Y.: D[aniel] Appleton & Company, 1853, →OCLC:

     It is the tradition of a trading nation […] , that the younger sons […] may be placed in such a way of life as […] to vie with the best of their family.

     The spelling has been modernized.

   • 2023 October 18, Nick Brodrick, “The grand gateway to Glasgow”, in RAIL, number 994, page 33:

     The Major Stations category is keenly contested, with 24 other large city centre termini and major rail hub stations all vying for recognition. As ever, the NRA's expert panel of judges visited each as unannounced mystery shoppers.

2. (transitive, archaic) To rival (something), etc.
   • c. 1606–1607 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Anthonie and Cleopatra”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):

     But, if there be, or ever were, one such, / It's past the size of dreaming: nature wants stuff / To vie strange forms with fancy; yet, to imagine / An Antony, were nature's piece 'gainst fancy, / Condemning shadows quite.

3. (transitive) To do or produce in emulation, competition, or rivalry; to put in competition; to bandy.
   • c. 1590–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Taming of the Shrew”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i]:

     She hung about my neck; and kiss on kiss / She vied so fast.

   • 1649, J[ohn] Milton, ΕΙΚΟΝΟΚΛΆΣΤΗΣ [Eikonoklástēs] […], London: […] Matthew Simmons, […], →OCLC:

     Nor was he set over us to vie wisdom with his Parliament, but to be guided by them.

   • 1633, George Herbert, The Sacrifice:

     And vying malice with my gentleness, / Pick quarrels with their only happiness.

4. To stake; to wager.
   • 1605 (first performance), Ben[jamin] Jonson, Ben: Ionson His Volpone or The Foxe, [London]: […] [George Eld] for Thomas Thorppe, published 1607, →OCLC, (please specify the Internet Archive page):

     Out, thou camelion harlot! now thine eyes Vie tears with the hyæna

   • c. 1606–1607 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Anthonie and Cleopatra”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene ii]:

     Nature wants stuff
     To vie strange forms with fancy

5. To stake a sum of money upon a hand of cards, as in the old game of gleek. See revie.

Synonyms

• battle
• compete
• oppose

Antonyms

• concede
• reconcile

Translations

to rival; to struggle for superiority; to compete

• Arabic: تَبَارَى (tabārā), تَنَافَسَ (tanāfasa)
• Belarusian: супе́рнічаць impf (supjérničacʹ), выпярэ́днічаць (vypjarédničacʹ)
• Bulgarian: съпернича (bg) (sǎperniča)
• Czech: soupeřit impf, bojovat (cs) impf, přetahovat se impf
• Dutch: wedijveren (nl)
• Finnish: kilpailla (fi)
• French: concourir (fr), rivaliser (fr), être en compétition pour
• Georgian: მეტოქეობა (meṭokeoba)
• German: wetteifern (de), konkurrieren (de)
• Hungarian: verseng (hu)
• Italian: competere (it), gareggiare (it), lottare (it), rivaleggiare (it), essere in lizza
• Maori: taupatupatu, tauwhāinga
• Persian: رقابت کردن (reqâbat kardan)
• Polish: współzawodniczyć impf
• Portuguese: competir (pt)
• Russian: сопе́рничать (ru) impf (sopérničatʹ)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: такмичити се

• Spanish: rivalizar (es), rivalejar
• Turkish: yarışmak (tr)
• Ukrainian: супе́рничати impf (supérnyčaty), змага́тися impf (zmahátysja)
• Welsh: cystadlu (cy)

to rival (something), etc

• Catalan: rivalitzar (ca)
• Georgian: მეტოქეობა (meṭokeoba)

Noun

vie (plural vies)

1. (obsolete) A contest.

See also

• a-vie
• eau de vie
• life estate pur autre vie

 

Anagrams

• -ive, I've

Bourguignon

Etymology

From Latin vita.

Noun

vie f (plural vies)

1. life

Danish

Etymology

From Old Norse vígja, from Proto-Germanic *wīhijaną.

Verb

vie (imperative vi, present tense vier, simple past viede, past participle viet)

1. dedicate something to someone or towards a cause
2. wed two persons into marriage

Derived terms

• indvie
• vielse
• vievand

Finnish

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈʋie̯/, [ˈʋie̞̯]
• Rhymes: -ie
• Syllabification^(key): vie

Verb

vie

1. third-person singular present indicative of viedä

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈʋie̯ˣ/, [ˈʋie̞̯(ʔ)]
• Rhymes: -ie
• Syllabification^(key): vie

Verb

vie

1. inflection of viedä:
   1. present active indicative connegative
   2. second-person singular present imperative
   3. second-person singular present active imperative connegative

Anagrams

• vei

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /vi/

• Audio:

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• Homophones: vies, vis, vit

Etymology 1

Inherited from Old French vie, from older Old French viḍe, from Vulgar Latin vītam, from Latin vīta, from Proto-Italic *gʷītā.

Noun

vie f (countable and uncountable, plural vies)

1. life, the state of organisms (organic beings) prior to death
2. life, period in which one is alive, between birth and death
3. biography, life
4. life, lifeforms

   l’apparition de la vie sur Terre ― the appearance of life on Earth

5. cost of living

   La vie a drôlement augmenté depuis quelque temps : il ne me reste plus grand-chose quand j’ai payé tous les impôts.

   The cost of living has really been going up lately: I don't have much left once I've paid all my taxes.

Derived terms

• à vie
• au péril de sa vie
• avoir la vie dure
• comme si sa vie en dépendait
• conditions de vie
• coût de la vie
• c’est la vie
• demi-vie
• durée de vie
• école de vie
• en fin de vie
• en vie
• enterrement de vie de garçon
• enterrement de vie de jeune fille
• espérance de vie
• faire sa vie
• gagner sa vie
• hygiène de vie
• jamais de la vie
• même si sa vie en dépendait
• mener la vie à grandes guides
• mener une vie de bâton de chaise
• mode de vie
• ne pas donner signe de vie
• niveau de vie
• passer de vie à trépas
• perdre la vie
• point de vie
• qualité de vie
• refaire sa vie
• science de la vie
• se compliquer la vie
• tant qu’il y a de la vie, il y a de l’espoir
• train de vie
• tranche de vie
• vie de château
• vie de chien
• vie de cocagne
• vie de Cocagne
• vie de patachon
• vie de tous les jours
• vie privée
• vie quotidienne
• vie sociale
• vivre sa vie
• voir la vie en rose

 

Descendants

• Antillean Creole: vi
• Guianese Creole: lavi
• Haitian Creole: lavi
• Louisiana Creole: vi
• Seychellois Creole: lavi

Etymology 2

Ultimately from Latin via. Compare voie.

Noun

vie f (plural vies)

1. (Switzerland, Jura) way, path (road, railway, etc)

Related terms

• vionnet (Switzerland, rare)

Further reading

• “vie”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈvi.e/
• Rhymes: -ie
• Hyphenation: vì‧e

Noun

vie f

1. plural of via

Anagrams

• -evi, evi

Latin

Verb

viē

1. second-person singular present active imperative of vieō

Manx

Adjective

vie

1. Lenited form of mie.

Mutation

Manx mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
mie	vie	unchanged
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

• Mark Abley, Spoken Here: Travels Among Threatened Languages (2003)

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Old Norse vígja, from Proto-Germanic *wīhijaną.

Verb

vie (imperative vi, present tense vier, simple past vigde or vidde or via or viet, past participle vigd or vidd or via or viet)

1. dedicate something to someone or towards a cause
2. wed two persons into marriage

Derived terms

• innvie
• vielse
• vievann

References

• “vie” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Verb

vie (present tense vier, past tense vigde, supine vigd or vigt, past participle vigd, present participle viande, imperative vi)

1. alternative form of via

Old French

Etymology

From Latin vīta.

Noun

vie oblique singular, f (oblique plural vies, nominative singular vie, nominative plural vies)

1. life
   • c. 1170, Chrétien de Troyes, Érec et Énide:

     Mout avoit changiee sa vie

     Much had it changed his life

Descendants

• Middle French: vie
  • French: vie
    • Antillean Creole: vi
    • Guianese Creole: lavi
    • Haitian Creole: lavi
    • Louisiana Creole: vi
    • Seychellois Creole: lavi
  • Norman: vie (Guernésiais)
• Walloon: veye, vèie

Picard

Etymology

From Latin vita.

Noun

vie f (plural vies)

1. life

Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈvi.e/

Etymology 1

Inherited from Latin vīnea.

Noun

vie f (plural vii)

1. vineyard
2. vine

   Synonym: viță

Declension

Declension of vie

	singular		plural
	indefinite articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(o) vie	via	(niște) vii	viile
genitive/dative	(unei) vii	viei	(unor) vii	viilor
vocative	vie, vio		viilor

Derived terms

• viță de vie

Related terms

• vier

Etymology 2

Forms of the adjective viu.

Adjective

vie

1. nominative/accusative feminine singular of viu

Alternative forms

• via

Etymology 3

Inherited from Latin vīvere, present active infinitive of vīvō, from Proto-Italic *gʷīwō, from Proto-Indo-European *gʷíh₃weti (“to live, be alive”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈvie/

Verb

a vie (third-person singular present vie, past participle vis) 3rd conj.

1. (rare, dated) to have life; to live, exist
2. (of intangibles, such as emotions and beliefs) to endure

Conjugation

    conjugation of vie (third conjugation, past participle in -s)

infinitive			a vie
gerund			viind
past participle			vis
number		singular			plural
person		1st person	2nd person	3rd person	1st person	2nd person	3rd person
indicative		eu	tu	el/ea	noi	voi	ei/ele
	present	viu	vii	vie	viem	vieți	viu
	imperfect	viam	viai	viea	viam	viați	viau
	simple perfect	vsei	vseși	visese	virăm	vserăți	vseră
	pluperfect	visem	vseseși	vsese	vseserăm	vseserăți	vseseră
subjunctive		eu	tu	el/ea	noi	voi	ei/ele
	present	să viu	să vii	să vie	să viem	să vieți	să vie
imperative		—	tu	—	—	voi	—
	affirmative		vii			vieți
	negative		nu vie			nu vieți

Synonyms

• dura
• exista
• fi
• trăi
• viețui

Derived terms

• viere

Related terms

• învie

References

MDA2 via *vie in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)

Slovak

Verb

vie

1. third-person singular present of vedieť