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Even though this word is reported as vĭ-trĭ-cus in the Lewis & Short and Gaffiot 2016 dictionaries, it is never attested as such in ancient poetry. De Vaan and the Oxford Latin Dictionary provide it with vī-. In poetry, it is only attested three times in Ovid (always with a heavy initial syllable, ambiguously vī- or vĭt-) and a few other times in late poets such as Prudentius (in like positions). That the vowel of the first syllable was long is supported by at least the Romanian reflex (the Sardinian and southern Italian reflexes can equally reflect /ī/ or /ĭ/).
“vitricus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
vitricus 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)
vitricus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 684