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vicis

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vicis

  1. plural of vici

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Etymology 1 edit

From Proto-Indo-European *weyk- (“to curve, bend”). 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 edit

Noun edit

vicis f (genitive, third declension)

  1. change, alternation, turn
    in vicem ― mutually, 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 edit

Third-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative — vicēs
Genitive vicis —
Dative vicī vicibus
Accusative vicem vicēs
Ablative vice vicibus
Vocative — —

Note: some cases do not occur due to the collocational/syntactic limitations of this word.

Derived terms edit
Descendants edit
  • Italo-Romance:
    • Italian: vece
  • Insular Romance:
  • North Italian:
  • Gallo-Romance:
  • Occitano-Romance:
  • Ibero-Romance:
    • Asturian: vez
    • Extremaduran: ves
    • Mirandese: beç
    • Old Galician-Portuguese: vez
    • Spanish: vez
  • Vulgar Latin: *vicenda
  • Borrowings:

Etymology 2 edit

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

vīcīs m

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

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