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Latin
Etymology
From Proto-Italic *weslis, from Proto-Indo-European *weslis, a deverbal adjective with passive meaning ("which can be bought"), from the root of venus (“sale”).
Pronunciation
Adjective
vīlis (neuter vīle, comparative vīlior, superlative vīlissimus); third-declension two-termination adjective
- cheap, inexpensive
- Antonyms: pretiōsus, cārus, impēnsus, dīves, antīquus
- base, vile, mean, worthless, cheap, paltry
- Synonyms: inānis, miser
Declension
Third-declension two-termination adjective.
Derived terms
Descendants
References
- “vilis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “vilis”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- vilis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to buy cheaply: parvo, vili pretio or bene emere
- De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN