vitis

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vitis

1. plural of vite

Inherited from Proto-Italic *wītis , from Proto-Indo-European *wéh1itis ("that which twines or bends; branch, switch"), from *weh1y- ("to twine, wind") + *-tis (abstract or action suffix). Related to Latin vieō . Cognate with English withe .

• (Classical Latin ) IPA ^(key): [ˈwiː.tɪs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical ) IPA ^(key): [ˈviː.tis]

vītis f (genitive vītis); third declension

1. vine, grapevine
   • c. 37 BCE – 30 BCE , Vergilius, Georgicon 4.269:

     vel psithia passos de vite racemos

     [...] or dried clusters of grapes from Psithian vine[s]

   • 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
   • 4th c./5th c. AD, Palladius, Opus Agriculturae 4.9.9:

     Si eius [cucumeris] florem, sicut in vite sua est, in forma fictili clauseris ac ligaris, [...]

     If you close and tie its [the cucumber plant's] flower in a clay mold, as it is on its own vine, [...]

Third-declension noun (i-stem).

• vīticula

(Note: for other descendants, see vīteus .)

Inflected form of vīta ("life").

• (Classical Latin ) IPA ^(key): [ˈwiː.tiːs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical ) IPA ^(key): [ˈviː.tis]

vītīs

1. dative /ablative plural of vīta

• "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, 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

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