vital
English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Middle English vital, from Old French vital, from Latin vītālis (“of life, life-giving”), from vīta (“life”), from vīvō (“I live”).
Pronunciation[edit]
Adjective[edit]
vital (comparative more vital, superlative most vital)
- Relating to, or characteristic of life.
- Synonym: lifely
- vital energies; vital functions; vital actions
- Necessary to the continuation of life; being the seat of life; being that on which life depends.
- The brain is a vital organ.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Qveene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for VVilliam Ponsonbie, OCLC 960102938, book II, canto I, stanza 12:
- And doen the heavens afford him vitall food?
- 1913, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Poison Belt[1]:
- Challenger breathed two or three times with enormous gulps, his lungs roaring as he drew in the vital gas.
- Invigorating or life-giving.
- Necessary to continued existence.
- The transition to farming was vital for the creation of civilisation.
- Relating to the recording of life events.
- Birth, marriage and death certificates are vital records.
- Very important.
- Synonyms: crucial, necessary, significant; see also Thesaurus:important
- It is vital that you don't forget to do your homework.
- 2012 December 14, Simon Jenkins, “We mustn't overreact to North Korea boys' toys”, in The Guardian Weekly[2], volume 188, number 2, page 23:
- David Cameron insists that his latest communications data bill is “vital to counter terrorism”. Yet terror is mayhem. It is no threat to freedom. That threat is from counter-terror, from ministers capitulating to securocrats.
- 2018, Clarence Green; James Lambert, “Advancing disciplinary literacy through English for academic purposes: Discipline-specific wordlists, collocations and word families for eight secondary subjects”, in Journal of English for Academic Purposes, volume 35, DOI: , page 105:
- Vocabulary is a vital component of educational success in both first and second language contexts.
- Containing life; living.
- Synonyms: extant, live, kicking; see also Thesaurus:alive
- 1667, John Milton, “Book 6”, in Paradise Lost. A Poem Written in Ten Books, London: […] [Samuel Simmons], […], OCLC 228722708; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, OCLC 230729554:
- spirits that live throughout, vital in every part
- 1841, Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Self-Reliance”, in Essays: First Series:
- I ought to go upright and vital, and speak the rude truth in all ways.
- 1715, Homer; [Alexander] Pope, transl., “Book V”, in The Iliad of Homer, volume I, London: […] W[illiam] Bowyer, for Bernard Lintott […], OCLC 670734254:
- The dart […] pierced a vital part.
- Capable of living; in a state to live; viable.
- 1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A. Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], OCLC 152706203:
- Pythagoras and Hippocrates […] affirming the birth of the seventh month to be vital.
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Further reading[edit]
- vital in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- vital in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
Catalan[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Adjective[edit]
vital (masculine and feminine plural vitals)
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French[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Old French vital, from Latin vītālis (“of life, life-giving”).
Pronunciation[edit]
- IPA(key): /vi.tal/
- Homophones: vitale, vitales
Adjective[edit]
vital (feminine singular vitale, masculine plural vitaux, feminine plural vitales)
Related terms[edit]
Further reading[edit]
- “vital” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Galician[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Latin vītālis (“of life, life-giving”).
Adjective[edit]
vital m or f (plural vitais)
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German[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Adjective[edit]
vital (comparative vitaler, superlative am vitalsten)
Declension[edit]
number & gender | singular | plural | |||
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masculine | feminine | neuter | all genders | ||
predicative | er ist vital | sie ist vital | es ist vital | sie sind vital | |
strong declension (without article) |
nominative | vitaler | vitale | vitales | vitale |
genitive | vitalen | vitaler | vitalen | vitaler | |
dative | vitalem | vitaler | vitalem | vitalen | |
accusative | vitalen | vitale | vitales | vitale | |
weak declension (with definite article) |
nominative | der vitale | die vitale | das vitale | die vitalen |
genitive | des vitalen | der vitalen | des vitalen | der vitalen | |
dative | dem vitalen | der vitalen | dem vitalen | den vitalen | |
accusative | den vitalen | die vitale | das vitale | die vitalen | |
mixed declension (with indefinite article) |
nominative | ein vitaler | eine vitale | ein vitales | (keine) vitalen |
genitive | eines vitalen | einer vitalen | eines vitalen | (keiner) vitalen | |
dative | einem vitalen | einer vitalen | einem vitalen | (keinen) vitalen | |
accusative | einen vitalen | eine vitale | ein vitales | (keine) vitalen |
number & gender | singular | plural | |||
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masculine | feminine | neuter | all genders | ||
predicative | er ist vitaler | sie ist vitaler | es ist vitaler | sie sind vitaler | |
strong declension (without article) |
nominative | vitalerer | vitalere | vitaleres | vitalere |
genitive | vitaleren | vitalerer | vitaleren | vitalerer | |
dative | vitalerem | vitalerer | vitalerem | vitaleren | |
accusative | vitaleren | vitalere | vitaleres | vitalere | |
weak declension (with definite article) |
nominative | der vitalere | die vitalere | das vitalere | die vitaleren |
genitive | des vitaleren | der vitaleren | des vitaleren | der vitaleren | |
dative | dem vitaleren | der vitaleren | dem vitaleren | den vitaleren | |
accusative | den vitaleren | die vitalere | das vitalere | die vitaleren | |
mixed declension (with indefinite article) |
nominative | ein vitalerer | eine vitalere | ein vitaleres | (keine) vitaleren |
genitive | eines vitaleren | einer vitaleren | eines vitaleren | (keiner) vitaleren | |
dative | einem vitaleren | einer vitaleren | einem vitaleren | (keinen) vitaleren | |
accusative | einen vitaleren | eine vitalere | ein vitaleres | (keine) vitaleren |
number & gender | singular | plural | |||
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masculine | feminine | neuter | all genders | ||
predicative | er ist am vitalsten | sie ist am vitalsten | es ist am vitalsten | sie sind am vitalsten | |
strong declension (without article) |
nominative | vitalster | vitalste | vitalstes | vitalste |
genitive | vitalsten | vitalster | vitalsten | vitalster | |
dative | vitalstem | vitalster | vitalstem | vitalsten | |
accusative | vitalsten | vitalste | vitalstes | vitalste | |
weak declension (with definite article) |
nominative | der vitalste | die vitalste | das vitalste | die vitalsten |
genitive | des vitalsten | der vitalsten | des vitalsten | der vitalsten | |
dative | dem vitalsten | der vitalsten | dem vitalsten | den vitalsten | |
accusative | den vitalsten | die vitalste | das vitalste | die vitalsten | |
mixed declension (with indefinite article) |
nominative | ein vitalster | eine vitalste | ein vitalstes | (keine) vitalsten |
genitive | eines vitalsten | einer vitalsten | eines vitalsten | (keiner) vitalsten | |
dative | einem vitalsten | einer vitalsten | einem vitalsten | (keinen) vitalsten | |
accusative | einen vitalsten | eine vitalste | ein vitalstes | (keine) vitalsten |
Synonyms[edit]
Interlingua[edit]
Adjective[edit]
vital (not comparable)
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Norwegian Bokmål[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Adjective[edit]
vital (neuter singular vitalt, definite singular and plural vitale)
References[edit]
- “vital” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Adjective[edit]
vital (neuter singular vitalt, definite singular and plural vitale)
References[edit]
- “vital” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Portuguese[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Adjective[edit]
vital m or f (plural vitais, comparable)
- vital (relating to, or characteristic of life)
- vital (necessary to the continuation of life)
- vital (very important)
- Synonyms: crucial, fundamental, essencial
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Romanian[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From French vital, from Latin vitalis.
Adjective[edit]
vital m or n (feminine singular vitală, masculine plural vitali, feminine and neuter plural vitale)
Declension[edit]
Spanish[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Adjective[edit]
vital (plural vitales)
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See also[edit]
- English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *gʷeyh₃-
- English terms inherited from Middle English
- English terms derived from Middle English
- English terms derived from Old French
- English terms derived from Latin
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- Catalan terms with IPA pronunciation
- Catalan lemmas
- Catalan adjectives
- Catalan epicene adjectives
- French terms inherited from Old French
- French terms derived from Old French
- French terms borrowed from Latin
- French terms derived from Latin
- French 2-syllable words
- French terms with IPA pronunciation
- French terms with homophones
- French lemmas
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- Galician terms borrowed from Latin
- Galician terms derived from Latin
- Galician lemmas
- Galician adjectives
- German terms borrowed from Latin
- German terms derived from Latin
- German 2-syllable words
- German terms with IPA pronunciation
- German terms with audio links
- German lemmas
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- German terms with rare senses
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- Interlingua lemmas
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- Norwegian Bokmål terms borrowed from Latin
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- Norwegian Nynorsk terms borrowed from Latin
- Norwegian Nynorsk terms derived from Latin
- Norwegian Nynorsk lemmas
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- Portuguese terms borrowed from Latin
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- Romanian terms borrowed from French
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