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See also: VIE, Vie, vi'e, вие, and Вие

Translingual

Symbol

vie

  1. (international standards) ISO 639-2 & ISO 639-3 language code for Vietnamese.

English

Etymology

Aphetic form of envy.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /vaɪ/
  • Rhymes: -aɪ
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Verb

vie (third-person singular simple present vies, present participle vying or vieing, simple past and past participle vied)

  1. (intransitive) To fight for superiority; to contend; to compete eagerly so as to gain something.
    Her suitors were all vying for her attention.
    • 1711 July 15 (Gregorian calendar), [Joseph Addison; Richard Steele et al.], “WEDNESDAY, July 4, 1711”, in The Spectator, number 109; republished in Alexander Chalmers, editor, The Spectator; a New Edition, , volume II, New York, N.Y.: D[aniel] Appleton & Company, 1853, →OCLC:
      It is the tradition of a trading nation […] , that the younger sons […] may be placed in such a way of life as […] to vie with the best of their family.
      The spelling has been modernized.
    • 2023 October 18, Nick Brodrick, “The grand gateway to Glasgow”, in RAIL, number 994, page 33:
      The Major Stations category is keenly contested, with 24 other large city centre termini and major rail hub stations all vying for recognition. As ever, the NRA's expert panel of judges visited each as unannounced mystery shoppers.
  2. (transitive, archaic) To rival (something), etc.
    • c. 1606–1607, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Anthonie and Cleopatra”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies  (First Folio), London: Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):
      But, if there be, or ever were, one such, / It's past the size of dreaming: nature wants stuff / To vie strange forms with fancy; yet, to imagine / An Antony, were nature's piece 'gainst fancy, / Condemning shadows quite.
  3. (transitive) To do or produce in emulation, competition, or rivalry; to put in competition; to bandy.
  4. To stake; to wager.
  5. To stake a sum of money upon a hand of cards, as in the old game of gleek. See revie.

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Antonyms

Translations

Noun

vie (plural vies)

  1. (obsolete) A contest.

See also

Anagrams

Bourguignon

Etymology

From Latin vita.

Noun

vie f (plural vies)

  1. life

Danish

Etymology

From Old Norse vígja, from Proto-Germanic *wīhijaną.

Verb

vie (imperative vi, present tense vier, simple past viede, past participle viet)

  1. dedicate something to someone or towards a cause
  2. wed two persons into marriage

Derived terms

Finnish

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

Verb

vie

  1. third-person singular present indicative of viedä

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈʋie̯ˣ/,
  • Rhymes: -ie
  • Syllabification(key): vie

Verb

vie

  1. inflection of viedä:
    1. present active indicative connegative
    2. second-person singular present imperative
    3. second-person singular present active imperative connegative

Anagrams

French

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Inherited from Old French vie, from older Old French viḍe, from Vulgar Latin vītam, from Latin vīta, from Proto-Italic *gʷītā.

Noun

vie f (countable and uncountable, plural vies)

  1. life, the state of organisms (organic beings) prior to death
  2. life, period in which one is alive, between birth and death
  3. biography, life
  4. life, lifeforms
    l’apparition de la vie sur Terre ― the appearance of life on Earth
  5. cost of living
    La vie a drôlement augmenté depuis quelque temps : il ne me reste plus grand-chose quand j’ai payé tous les impôts.
    The cost of living has really been going up lately: I don't have much left once I've paid all my taxes.

Derived terms
Descendants
  • Antillean Creole: vi
  • Guianese Creole: lavi
  • Haitian Creole: lavi
  • Louisiana Creole: vi
  • Seychellois Creole: lavi

Etymology 2

Ultimately from Latin via. Compare voie.

Noun

vie f (plural vies)

  1. (Switzerland, Jura) way, path (road, railway, etc)
Related terms

Further reading

Italian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈvi.e/
  • Rhymes: -ie
  • Hyphenation: vì‧e

Noun

vie f

  1. plural of via

Anagrams

Latin

Verb

viē

  1. second-person singular present active imperative of vieō

Manx

Adjective

vie

  1. Lenited form of mie.

Mutation

Manx mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
mie vie unchanged
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

  • Mark Abley, Spoken Here: Travels Among Threatened Languages (2003)

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Old Norse vígja, from Proto-Germanic *wīhijaną.

Verb

vie (imperative vi, present tense vier, simple past vigde or vidde or via or viet, past participle vigd or vidd or via or viet)

  1. dedicate something to someone or towards a cause
  2. wed two persons into marriage

Derived terms

References

Norwegian Nynorsk

Verb

vie (present tense vier, past tense vigde, supine vigd or vigt, past participle vigd, present participle viande, imperative vi)

  1. alternative form of via

Old French

Etymology

From Latin vīta.

Noun

vie oblique singular, f (oblique plural vies, nominative singular vie, nominative plural vies)

  1. life

Descendants

  • Middle French: vie
    • French: vie
      • Antillean Creole: vi
      • Guianese Creole: lavi
      • Haitian Creole: lavi
      • Louisiana Creole: vi
      • Seychellois Creole: lavi
    • Norman: vie (Guernésiais)
  • Walloon: veye, vèie

Picard

Etymology

From Latin vita.

Noun

vie f (plural vies)

  1. life

Romanian

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Inherited from Latin vīnea.

Noun

vie f (plural vii)

  1. vineyard
  2. vine
    Synonym: viță
Declension
Declension of vie
singular plural
indefinite articulation definite articulation indefinite articulation definite articulation
nominative/accusative (o) vie via (niște) vii viile
genitive/dative (unei) vii viei (unor) vii viilor
vocative vie, vio viilor
Derived terms
Related terms

Etymology 2

Forms of the adjective viu.

Adjective

vie

  1. nominative/accusative feminine singular of viu
Alternative forms

Etymology 3

Inherited from Latin vīvere, present active infinitive of vīvō, from Proto-Italic *gʷīwō, from Proto-Indo-European *gʷíh₃weti (“to live, be alive”).

Pronunciation

Verb

a vie (third-person singular present vie, past participle vis) 3rd conj.

  1. (rare, dated) to have life; to live, exist
  2. (of intangibles, such as emotions and beliefs) to endure
Conjugation
    conjugation of vie (third conjugation, past participle in -s)
infinitive a vie
gerund viind
past participle vis
number singular plural
person 1st person 2nd person 3rd person 1st person 2nd person 3rd person
indicative eu tu el/ea noi voi ei/ele
present viu vii vie viem vieți viu
imperfect viam viai viea viam viați viau
simple perfect vsei vseși visese virăm vserăți vseră
pluperfect visem vseseși vsese vseserăm vseserăți vseseră
subjunctive eu tu el/ea noi voi ei/ele
present să viu să vii să vie să viem să vieți să vie
imperative — tu — — voi —
affirmative vii vieți
negative nu vie nu vieți
Synonyms
Derived terms
Related terms
References

MDA2 via *vie in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)

Slovak

Verb

vie

  1. third-person singular present of vedieť
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