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English
Etymology 1
From Vicia + -ine.
Pronunciation
Noun
vicine (uncountable)
- (organic chemistry) An alkaloid extracted from the seeds of the vetch (Vicia sativa) as a white crystalline substance.
Etymology 2
From Latin vīcīnus.
Pronunciation
Adjective
vicine (comparative more vicine, superlative most vicine)
- (obsolete) Nearby; neighbouring; vicinal.
1665, Joseph Glanvill, Scepsis Scientifica: Or, Confest Ignorance, the Way to Science; , London: E. C for Henry Eversden , →OCLC:it's difficult to apprehend , but that these avennues should in a short time be stopped up by the pressure of other parts of the matter , through its natural gravity , or other alterations made in the Brain : And the opening of other vicine passages might quickly obliterate any tracks of these ; as the making of one hole in the yielding mud , defaces the print of another near it
Italian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /viˈt͡ʃi.ne/
- Rhymes: -ine
- Hyphenation: vi‧cì‧ne
Noun
vicine f
- plural of vicina
Adjective
vicine
- feminine plural of vicino
Anagrams
Latin
Etymology 1
From vīcīnus (“near, neighboring”) + -ē.
Pronunciation
Adverb
vīcīnē (comparative vīcīnius, superlative vīcīnissimē)
- nearby, in the neighborhood
Etymology 2
Inflected form of vīcīnus (“near, neighboring”).
Pronunciation
Noun
vīcīne
- vocative singular of vīcīnus
References
- “vicine”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- vicine in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.