vilicus

Latin

Etymology

From villa.

Noun

vīlicus m (genitive vīlicī); second declension

1. bailiff, steward of a farm/estate
2. villager

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	vīlicus	vīlicī
Genitive	vīlicī	vīlicōrum
Dative	vīlicō	vīlicīs
Accusative	vīlicum	vīlicōs
Ablative	vīlicō	vīlicīs
Vocative	vīlice	vīlicī

Derived terms

• vīlicō
• vilica

Descendants

• Italian: villico
• Portuguese: vílico

References

• “vilicus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “vilicus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• vilicus 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)
• vilicus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “vilicus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers