vicis

• IPA^(key): (Central)
• IPA^(key): (Balearic, Valencia)
• Homophone: bicis (Central)

vicis

1. plural of vici

From Proto-Indo-European *weyk- (“to curve, bend”).^[1] Cognate with vinciō, Ancient Greek εἴκω (eíkō), English week, German Wechsel (“change”), Northern Sami viker (“willow twig, wand”), Old Norse vikja (“to bend, turn”), Old English wician (“to yield, give way”), wice (“wych elm”), Sanskrit विष्टी (viṣṭī, “changeable, changing”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈu̯i.kis/,
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈvi.t͡ʃis/,

vicis f (genitive, third declension)

1. change, alternation, turn

   in vicem ― mutually, reciprocally

2. time, instance
3. (by extension) season
4. succession
5. condition, lot
6. The position, room, place, stead, post, office or duty of one person assumed by another

Third-declension noun.

Note: some cases do not occur due to the collocational/syntactic limitations of this word.

• Italo-Romance:
  • Italian: vece
    • → Sardinian: veci
• Insular Romance:
  • ⇒ Sardinian: vicanu, bicaniu
• North Italian:
  • Old Piedmontese: vèis
  • ⇒? Friulian: vecis
• Gallo-Romance:
  • Franco-Provençal: vês
  • Old French: foiz, feiz
    • Middle French: foys
      • French: fois
        • → Esperanto: fojo
    • → Franco-Provençal: fês
    • → Occitan: fes
• Occitano-Romance:
  • Old Catalan: veu
  • Gascon: vetz
  • Old Occitan: vetz
    • Limousin: vetz
• Ibero-Romance:
  • Asturian: vez
  • Extremaduran: ves
  • Mirandese: beç
  • Old Galician-Portuguese: vez
    • Galician: vez
    • Portuguese: vez
  • Ladino: vez, ves, ב׳יז
  • Spanish: vez
• Vulgar Latin: *vicenda
  • Italian: vicenda
    • → Ligurian: vicénda
• Borrowings:
  • → Portuguese: vice, vis-

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈu̯iː.kiːs/,
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈvi.t͡ʃis/,

vīcīs m

1. dative/ablative plural of vīcus (“village, municipal”)

• “vicis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “vicis”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• vicis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • I am sorry for you: tuam vicem doleo
    
• Pokorny, Julius (1959) Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 3, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 1130
• Dizionario Latino, Olivetti