vicis

vicis

Catalan

Pronunciation

Noun

vicis

  1. plural of vici

Latin

Etymology 1

    From Proto-Indo-European *weyk- (to curve, bend).[1] Cognate with vinciō, Ancient Greek εἴκω (eíkō), English week, German Wechsel (change), Northern Sami viker (willow twig, wand), Old Norse vikja (to bend, turn), Old English wician (to yield, give way), wice (wych elm), Sanskrit विष्टी (viṣṭī, changeable, changing).

    Pronunciation

    Noun

    vicis f (genitive, third declension)

    1. change, alternation, turn
      in vicemmutually, reciprocally
    2. time, instance
    3. (by extension) season
    4. succession
    5. condition, lot
    6. the position, room, place, stead, post, office or duty of one person assumed by another
    Declension

    Third-declension noun.

    singular plural
    nominative vicēs
    genitive vicis
    dative vicī vicibus
    accusative vicem vicēs
    ablative vice vicibus
    vocative
    Derived terms
    Descendants

    See vice for further descendants.

    • Insular Romance:
      • Sardinian: vicanu, bicaniu
    • Italo-Dalmatian:
    • Rhaeto-Romance:
    • Gallo-Italic:
      • Old Piedmontese: vèis
    • Northern Gallo-Romance:
    • Southern Gallo-Romance:
      • Old Catalan: veu
      • Old Occitan: vetz
        • Gascon: vetz
        • Limousin: vetz
    • Ibero-Romance:
      • Asturian: vez
      • Extremaduran: ves
      • Mirandese: beç
      • Old Galician-Portuguese: vez
      • Old Spanish: vez
    • Vulgar Latin: *vicenda
      • Italian: vicenda
        • Ligurian: vicénda

    Etymology 2

    Pronunciation

    Noun

    vīcīs m

    1. dative/ablative plural of vīcus (village, municipal)

    References

    1. ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008), “vicis”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 674-5