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Latin
Etymology
From vīvō (“to live”) + -titō (frequentative suffix).
Pronunciation
Verb
vīctitō (present infinitive vīctitāre, perfect active vīctitāvī, supine vīctitātum); first conjugation, impersonal in the passive
- (pre-Classical) to live, subsist
c. 211 BCE,
Plautus,
Rudens 3.4:
- Nullum habemus ignem, ficis victitamus aridis.
- We keep no fire, we live upon dried figs.
Conjugation
References
- “victito”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “victito”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- victito in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.