vita

English

Etymology

From Latin vīta (“life”). Doublet of quick and jiva.

Noun

vita (plural vitae or vitas or (archaic) vitæ)

1. A hagiography; a biography of a saint.
2. A curriculum vitae.

See also

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):

Participle

vita

1. inflection of vít:
   1. feminine singular passive participle
   2. neuter plural passive participle

Faroese

Etymology 1

From Old Norse vita, from Proto-Germanic *witaną, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *weyd- (“see”).

Verb

vita (third person singular past indicative visti, third person plural past indicative vistu, supine vitað)

1. To know.

Conjugation

Related terms

• vitan
• vitigur
• vitlítil
• vitleysur

See also

• vitja

Etymology 2

Inflected form of viti

Noun

vita m

1. indefinite accusative singular of viti
2. indefinite dative singular of viti
3. indefinite genitive singular of viti
4. indefinite genitive plural of viti

Finnish

Etymology

Means "water slime" in dialects. Origin unknown.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈʋitɑ/,
• Rhymes: -itɑ
• Syllabification^(key): vi‧ta

Noun

vita

1. pondweed (an aquatic plant of the genus Potamogeton)

Declension

Hypernyms

• uposkasvi (an underwater plant)
• vitakasvi (a plant of the family Potamogetonaceae)

Hyponyms

• ahvenvita (Potamogeton perfoliatus)
• hapsivita (Potamogeton pectinatus)
• heinävita (Potamogeton gramineus)
• hentovita (Potamogeton pusillus)
• jouhivita (Potamogeton rutilus)
• kyhmyvita (Potamogeton trichoides)
• litteävita (Potamogeton compressus)
• lähdevita (Potamogeton coloratus)
• merivita (Potamogeton filiformis)
• nauhavita (Potamogeton x sparganiifolius)
• otalehtivita (Potamogeton friesii)
• pikkuvita (Potamogeton berchtoldii)
• pitkälehtivita (Potamogeton praelongus)
• poimuvita (Potamogeton crispus)
• purovita (Potamogeton alpinus)
• soikkovita (Potamogeton nodosus)
• suippuvita (Potamogeton acutifolius)
• tatarvita (Potamogeton polygonifolius)
• tuppivita (Potamogeton vaginatus)
• tylppälehtivita (Potamogeton obtusifolius)
• uistinvita (Potamogeton natans)
• vaskivita (Potamogeton x angustifolius)
• välkevita (Potamogeton lucens)

Derived terms

Further reading

• “vita”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎ (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-04

Anagrams

• ivat, tavi, vati, viat

Gallurese

Etymology

From Classical Latin vīta, from Proto-Italic *gʷītā, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *gʷeyh₃- (“to live”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈvita/

Noun

vita f (plural viti)

1. life

References

Hungarian

Etymology

Back-formation from vitat.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):

• Audio

  (file)

• Hyphenation: vi‧ta
• Rhymes: -tɒ

Noun

vita (plural viták)

1. debate, dispute, discussion

Declension

Derived terms

References

Further reading

• vita in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (‘The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN

Icelandic

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈvɪːta/
• Rhymes: -ɪːta

Etymology 1

From Old Norse vita, from Proto-Germanic *witaną, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *weyd- (“see”).

Verb

vita (preterite-present verb, third-person singular present indicative veit, third-person singular past indicative vissi, supine vitað)

1. to know (information), know of something

   Að heyra barn hlæja er það fallegasta sem ég veit.

   To hear a child laughing is the most beautiful thing I know.

   Vissir þú að við lentum aldrei á tunglinu í alvörunni? Það var allt feik.

   Did you know we never really landed on the moon? It was all fake.

2. to see, check

   Vittu nú hvort þú getir ekki lagað þetta fyrir mig.

   Now see if you can't fix that for me.

Conjugation

Derived terms

• þúst
• eins og alþjóð veit
• eitt mátt þú vita
• vita vel/vita fyrir víst/vita með vissu/vita fyrir satt (to be sure)

  Hann er svindlari og ég veit þetta fyrir víst.

• það er ekki að vita/það er aldrei að vita (you never know)

  Það er aldrei að vita hvenær næsta tækifæri býðst.

• láta [einhvern] vita (to let know)

  Látið mig vita ef ykkur vantar eitthvað.

• það má guð vita/það má hamingjan vita/það má fjandinn vita/það má Óðinn vita (God knows)
• Hvernig förum við að því að borga þetta? Það má fjandinn vita.
• vita um eitthvað/ vita um einhvern (to know about something/someone)

  Ég veit ekkert um þetta mál.

• vita af einhverju (know about something)
• vita af sér (to be pleased with one self)

  Hann er laglegur og veit af sér.

• (archaic) vita á eitthvað (predicts)

  Þessi draumur veit á illt.

• vita til einhvers (to know something. bad/good:)

  Það er hörmulegt að vita til þess að það skuli ekki vera hægt að lækna þetta

• vita ekki haus né sporð á einhverju (know nothing about something)

  Veistu hverskonar maður hann er?- Nei, ég veit ekki haus né sporð á honum.

Etymology 2

Noun

vita

1. inflection of viti:
   1. indefinite accusative
   2. indefinite dative singular
   3. indefinite genitive

Interlingua

Noun

vita (plural vitas)

1. life

Related terms

• vital

Italian

Etymology

From Latin vīta, from Proto-Italic *gʷītā, possibly a derivative of Proto-Indo-European *gʷih₃wo-teh₂, from the root *gʷeyh₃- (“to live”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈvi.ta/

• Audio

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ita
• Hyphenation: vì‧ta

Noun

vita f (plural vite)

1. life
   • mid 1300s–mid 1310s, Dante Alighieri, “Canto I”, in Inferno [Hell]‎, lines 1–3; republished as Giorgio Petrocchi, editor, La Commedia secondo l'antica vulgata [The Commedia according to the ancient vulgate]‎, 2^nd revised edition, Florence: publ. Le Lettere, 1994:

     Nel mezzo del cammin di nostra vita
     mi ritrovai per una selva oscura,
     ché la diritta via era smarrita.

     Halfway through the journey of our life, I found myself inside a dark forest, for the straightforward path was lost.

2. waist

Related terms

Anagrams

• vati

Ladin

Etymology

From Latin vīta.

Noun

vita f (plural vites)

1. life

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *gʷītā. Possibly corresponds to a derivative of Proto-Indo-European *gʷih₃wo-teh₂ (compare Ancient Greek βίοτος (bíotos, “life”), Old Irish bethu, bethad, Irish beatha, Welsh bywyd, Old Church Slavonic животъ (životŭ, “life”), Lithuanian gyvatà (“life”), Sanskrit जीवित (jīvitá), Avestan gayo (accusative ǰyātum) "life")), ultimately from *gʷeyh₃- (“to live”).

Pronunciation

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

Noun

vīta f (genitive vītae); first declension

1. life

   Synonym: lūx

2. (by extension) living, support, subsistence
3. a way of life
4. real life, not fiction
5. (figuratively) mankind, the living

Declension

First-declension noun.

Derived terms

Related terms

Descendants

Verb

vītā

1. second-person singular present active imperative of vītō

References

• “vita”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “vita”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “vita”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• vita 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)

Malagasy

Adjective

vita

1. finished, complete, completed
2. (figuratively) dead

Verb

vita

1. To finish, complete, do, accomplish.

Related terms

See also

• mahavita

Neapolitan

Etymology

Inherited from Latin vīta. Compare Italian vita.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈvitə/

Noun

vita f (plural vite)

1. life

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology 1

From Old Norse vita, from Proto-Germanic *witaną, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *weyd- (“see”).

Alternative forms

• vete, vite (e infinitives)
• veta (a infinitive)
• væta, vætæ, vata, våtå, vytå, vøtå, voto, veita, vessta (dialectal)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /²ʋɪ(ː)ta/
• Hyphenation: vì‧ta

Verb

vita (present tense veit, past tense visste, past participle visst, passive infinitive vitast, present participle vitande, imperative vit)

1. To know.

   Veit du kva dette er?

   Do you know what this is?

Derived terms

• allvitande

Etymology 2

From Latin vita (“life”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /¹ʋiːtɑ/

Noun

vita n (definite singular vitaet, indefinite plural vita, definite plural vitaa)

1. biography

   Synonym: biografi

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /¹ʋiːtɑ/

Noun

vita n

1. definite plural of vit

References

• “vita” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Old Norse

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *witaną (“to know”), from Proto-Indo-European *wóyde (“to have seen, know”), originally a perfect form of *weyd- (“to see”).

Cognate with Old English witan, Old Frisian wita, Old Saxon witan, Old Dutch witan, Old High German wizzan, Gothic 𐍅𐌹𐍄𐌰𐌽 (witan).

Verb

vita (singular past indicative vissi, plural past indicative vissu, past participle vitaðr)

1. to know

Conjugation

Descendants

Old Swedish

Alternative forms

• ᚠᛁᛏᛆ (Runic)

Etymology 1

From Old Norse vita, from Proto-Germanic *witaną.

Verb

vita

1. To know.

Conjugation

Descendants

• Swedish: veta

Etymology 2

From Old Norse víta, from Proto-Germanic *wītaną.

Verb

vīta

1. To prove.
2. To accuse.

Conjugation

Piedmontese

Etymology

From Latin vīta, from Proto-Italic *gʷītā, possibly a derivative of Proto-Indo-European *gʷih₃wo-teh₂, from the root *gʷeyh₃- (“to live”).

Noun

vita f (plural vite)

1. life

Romansch

Etymology 1

From Latin vīta.

Noun

vita f (plural vitas)

1. (Rumantsch Grischun, Puter, Vallader) life

Alternative forms

• veta (Sursilvan, Sutsilvan, Surmiran)

Etymology 2

Related to Etymology 1 above, similar to Italian vita.

Noun

vita f (plural vitas)

1. (anatomy, Rumantsch Grischun, Vallader) waist

Alternative forms

• veta (Sursilvan, Sutsilvan, Surmiran)

Synonyms

• taglia (Rumantsch Grischun, Surmiran, Puter)

Serbo-Croatian

Participle

vita (Cyrillic spelling вита)

1. inflection of viti:
   1. feminine singular passive past participle
   2. neuter plural passive past participle

Swahili

Pronunciation

• Audio (Kenya)

  (file)

Noun

vita

1. plural of kita: war

Derived terms

• vita baridi (“cold war”)
• vita vya msituni (“guerrilla war”)
• vita vya wenyewe kwa wenyewe (“civil war”)
• Vita Kuu ya Kwanza ya Dunia (“World War I”)
• Vita Kuu ya Pili ya Dunia (“World War II”)

Swedish

Adjective

vita

1. inflection of vit:
   1. definite singular
   2. plural

Tsonga

Etymology

From Proto-Bantu *-bɪ́dia, causative form of Proto-Bantu *-bɪ́da.

Verb

vita

1. To call.