votivus

Latin

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *h₁wegʷʰ-

Proto-Indo-European *-yeti

Proto-Indo-European *-éyeti

Proto-Indo-European *h₁wogʷʰéyeti

Proto-Italic *woɣʷeō

Latin voveō

Proto-Indo-European *-wós

Proto-Indo-European *-iHwósder.

Latin īvus

Latin vōtīvus

From voveō (“to vow”) + īvus.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [woːˈtiː.wʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [voˈtiː.vus]

Adjective

vōtīvus (feminine vōtīva, neuter vōtīvum); first/second-declension adjective

1. Of or pertaining to a vow; promised by a vow, given in consequence of a vow; vowed, votive.
2. Desired, longed or wished for.

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

	singular				plural
	masculine	feminine	neuter		masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	vōtīvus	vōtīva	vōtīvum		vōtīvī	vōtīvae	vōtīva
genitive	vōtīvī	vōtīvae	vōtīvī		vōtīvōrum	vōtīvārum	vōtīvōrum
dative	vōtīvō	vōtīvae	vōtīvō		vōtīvīs
accusative	vōtīvum	vōtīvam	vōtīvum		vōtīvōs	vōtīvās	vōtīva
ablative	vōtīvō	vōtīvā	vōtīvō		vōtīvīs
vocative	vōtīve	vōtīva	vōtīvum		vōtīvī	vōtīvae	vōtīva

Derived terms

• vōtīvitās

Related terms

• vōtifer
• vōtum
• vōtus
• voveō

Descendants

• English: votive
• French: votif
• Italian: votivo
• Piedmontese: vutiv
• Portuguese: votivo
• Romanian: votiv
• Spanish: votivo

References

• “votivus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “votivus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "votivus", 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)
• “votivus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.