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Latin
Etymology
vīcus (“town, street, quarter”) + -īnus (“pertaining to”)
Pronunciation
Adjective
vīcīnus (feminine vīcīna, neuter vīcīnum, comparative vīcīnior, adverb vīcīnē); first/second-declension adjective
- (chiefly poetic) near, neighboring
- Synonyms: propinquus, contiguus, fīnitimus, proximus
- Antonyms: longinquus, remōtus
- like, similar, kindred
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
Noun
vīcīnus m (genitive vīcīnī); second declension
- neighbour/neighbor
Declension
Second-declension noun.
Derived terms
Descendants
See also
References
- “vicinus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “vicinus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- vicinus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- vicinus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.