vitis

Friulian

Noun

vitis

1. plural of vite

Latin

Etymology 1

From Proto-Italic *wītis, from Proto-Indo-European *wéh₁itis (“that which twines or bends, branch, switch”), from *weh₁y- (“to turn, wind, bend”). See Latin vieō and English withe.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

vītis f (genitive vītis); third declension

1. vine, grapevine
   • c. 37 BCE – 30 BCE, Virgil, Georgics 4.269:

     vel psithia passos de vite racemos

     or dried clusters of grapes from Psithian vine

   • c. 160-220 C.E., Tertullian, De Judicio Domini, 22

     quid faciat laetis ut vitis abaestuet uvis

     What makes a vine hang down richly with grapes

2. (historical) a vine staff, the baton or cane (made of grapevine) of a Roman centurion
3. any vine
   • c. 500 CE, Palladius, Opus Agriculturae 4.9.9:

     Si eius florem, sicut in vite sua est, in forma fictili clauseris ac ligaris,

     If you close and tie its flower in a clay mold, as it is on its own vine,

Declension

Third-declension noun (i-stem).

Derived terms

• vīticula

Descendants

Etymology 2

Inflected form of vīta (“life”)

Pronunciation

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

Noun

vītīs

1. dative/ablative plural of vīta

References

• “vitis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “vitis”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• vitis 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)
• vitis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “vitis”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly