vitta
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- Rhymes: -ɪtə
Noun
[edit]vitta (plural vittae)
- A fillet, or garland for the head.
- (zoology) A longitudinal stripe.
- 1870, American Entomologist and Botanist, volume 2, page 301:
- The curved black line behind the scutel is usually expanded, in connection with the metathoracic black vitta, into a broad black triangle, the apex of which does not quite attain the abdominal peduncle.
- (botany) An oil tube in the fruit of some plants.
Anagrams
[edit]Latin
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Latin vieō (“to plait, weave”), perhaps via an earlier *vīta, a to-particle of vieō (< *uiH-to-).[1]
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈwɪt.ta]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈvit.ta]
Noun
[edit]vitta f (genitive vittae); first declension
Declension
[edit]First-declension noun.
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | vitta | vittae |
| genitive | vittae | vittārum |
| dative | vittae | vittīs |
| accusative | vittam | vittās |
| ablative | vittā | vittīs |
| vocative | vitta | vittae |
Derived terms
[edit]- vittātus
- vitticolis (New Latin)
Descendants
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008), “vieō (> Derivatives > vitta 'linen headband, woollen band')”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 677
Further reading
[edit]- “vitta”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “vitta”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
Old Norse
[edit]Noun
[edit]vitta
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