vitalis

See also: Vitalis

Latin

Etymology

Etymology tree

Latin vīta

Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.?

Proto-Italic *-ālis

Latin -ālis

Latin vītālis

From vīta (“life”) + -ālis.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [wiːˈtaː.lɪs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [viˈtaː.lis]

Adjective

vītālis (neuter vītāle); third-declension two-termination adjective

1. of or pertaining to life; vital, life-giving

   Synonym: animālis

   Antonym: mortālis

Declension

Third-declension two-termination adjective.

	singular			plural
	masc./fem.	neuter		masc./fem.	neuter
nominative	vītālis	vītāle		vītālēs	vītālia
genitive	vītālis			vītālium
dative	vītālī			vītālibus
accusative	vītālem	vītāle		vītālīs vītālēs	vītālia
ablative	vītālī			vītālibus
vocative	vītālis	vītāle		vītālēs	vītālia

Derived terms

• vitālia

Descendants

• Asturian: vital, vidaya
• Catalan: vital
• English: vital
• French: vital
• Galician: vital, vidalla
• German: vital
• Italian: vitale
• Portuguese: vital
• Romanian: vital
• Sicilian: vitali
• Spanish: vital

References

• “vitalis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “vitalis”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "vitalis", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “vitalis”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “vitalis”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray