vita
EnglishEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Latin vīta (“life”). Doublet of quick and jiva.
NounEdit
- A hagiography; a biography of a saint.
- A curriculum vitae.
CzechEdit
PronunciationEdit
VerbEdit
vita
- inflection of vít:
FaroeseEdit
Etymology 1Edit
From Old Norse vita, from Proto-Germanic *witaną, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *weyd- (“see”).
VerbEdit
vita (third person singular past indicative visti, third person plural past indicative vistu, supine vitað)
- To know.
ConjugationEdit
Conjugation of vita (irregular) | ||
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infinitive | vita | |
supine | vitað | |
participle | — | — |
present | past | |
first singular | veit | visti |
second singular | veitst | visti |
third singular | veit | visti |
plural | vita | vistu |
imperative | ||
singular | — | |
plural | — |
Related termsEdit
See alsoEdit
Etymology 2Edit
Inflected form of viti
NounEdit
vita m
FinnishEdit
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
vita
- pondweed (an aquatic plant of the genus Potamogeton)
DeclensionEdit
Inflection of vita (Kotus type 9*F/kala, t-d gradation) | |||
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nominative | vita | vidat | |
genitive | vidan | vitojen | |
partitive | vitaa | vitoja | |
illative | vitaan | vitoihin | |
singular | plural | ||
nominative | vita | vidat | |
accusative | nom. | vita | vidat |
gen. | vidan | ||
genitive | vidan | vitojen vitainrare | |
partitive | vitaa | vitoja | |
inessive | vidassa | vidoissa | |
elative | vidasta | vidoista | |
illative | vitaan | vitoihin | |
adessive | vidalla | vidoilla | |
ablative | vidalta | vidoilta | |
allative | vidalle | vidoille | |
essive | vitana | vitoina | |
translative | vidaksi | vidoiksi | |
instructive | — | vidoin | |
abessive | vidatta | vidoitta | |
comitative | — | vitoineen |
Possessive forms of vita (type kala) | ||
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possessor | singular | plural |
1st person | vitani | vitamme |
2nd person | vitasi | vitanne |
3rd person | vitansa |
HypernymsEdit
- uposkasvi (an underwater plant)
- vitakasvi (a plant of the family Potamogetonaceae)
HyponymsEdit
- ahvenvita (Potamogeton perfoliatus)
- hapsivita (Potamogeton pectinatus)
- heinävita (Potamogeton gramineus)
- hentovita (Potamogeton pusillus)
- jouhivita (Potamogeton rutilus)
- kyhmyvita (Potamogeton trichoides)
- litteävita (Potamogeton compressus)
- lähdevita (Potamogeton coloratus)
- merivita (Potamogeton filiformis)
- nauhavita (Potamogeton x sparganiifolius)
- otalehtivita (Potamogeton friesii)
- pikkuvita (Potamogeton berchtoldii)
- pitkälehtivita (Potamogeton praelongus)
- poimuvita (Potamogeton crispus)
- purovita (Potamogeton alpinus)
- soikkovita (Potamogeton nodosus)
- suippuvita (Potamogeton acutifolius)
- tatarvita (Potamogeton polygonifolius)
- tuppivita (Potamogeton vaginatus)
- tylppälehtivita (Potamogeton obtusifolius)
- uistinvita (Potamogeton natans)
- vaskivita (Potamogeton x angustifolius)
- välkevita (Potamogeton lucens)
AnagramsEdit
HungarianEdit
EtymologyEdit
Back-formation from vitat.[1]
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
vita (plural viták)
DeclensionEdit
Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, back harmony) | ||
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singular | plural | |
nominative | vita | viták |
accusative | vitát | vitákat |
dative | vitának | vitáknak |
instrumental | vitával | vitákkal |
causal-final | vitáért | vitákért |
translative | vitává | vitákká |
terminative | vitáig | vitákig |
essive-formal | vitaként | vitákként |
essive-modal | — | — |
inessive | vitában | vitákban |
superessive | vitán | vitákon |
adessive | vitánál | vitáknál |
illative | vitába | vitákba |
sublative | vitára | vitákra |
allative | vitához | vitákhoz |
elative | vitából | vitákból |
delative | vitáról | vitákról |
ablative | vitától | vitáktól |
non-attributive possessive - singular |
vitáé | vitáké |
non-attributive possessive - plural |
vitáéi | vitákéi |
Possessive forms of vita | ||
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possessor | single possession | multiple possessions |
1st person sing. | vitám | vitáim |
2nd person sing. | vitád | vitáid |
3rd person sing. | vitája | vitái |
1st person plural | vitánk | vitáink |
2nd person plural | vitátok | vitáitok |
3rd person plural | vitájuk | vitáik |
Derived termsEdit
ReferencesEdit
- ^ Eőry, Vilma. Értelmező szótár+ (’Explanatory Dictionary Plus’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2007. →ISBN
Further readingEdit
- vita in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (‘The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN
IcelandicEdit
PronunciationEdit
Etymology 1Edit
From Old Norse vita, from Proto-Germanic *witaną, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *weyd- (“see”).
VerbEdit
vita (preterite-present verb, third-person singular present indicative veit, third-person singular past indicative vissi, supine vitað)
- to know (information), know of something
- Að heyra barn hlæja er það fallegasta sem ég veit.
- To hear a child laughing is the most beautiful thing I know.
- Vissir þú að við lentum aldrei á tunglinu í alvörunni? Það var allt feik.
- Did you know we never really landed on the moon? It was all fake.
- to see, check
- Vittu nú hvort þú getir ekki lagað þetta fyrir mig.
- Now see if you can't fix that for me.
ConjugationEdit
infinitive (nafnháttur) |
að vita | ||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
supine (sagnbót) |
vitað | ||||
present participle (lýsingarháttur nútíðar) |
vitandi | ||||
indicative (framsöguháttur) |
subjunctive (viðtengingarháttur) | ||||
present (nútíð) |
ég veit | við vitum | present (nútíð) |
ég viti | við vitum |
þú veist | þið vitið | þú vitir | þið vitið | ||
hann, hún, það veit | þeir, þær, þau vita | hann, hún, það viti | þeir, þær, þau viti | ||
past (þátíð) |
ég vissi | við vissum | past (þátíð) |
ég vissi | við vissum |
þú vissir | þið vissuð | þú vissir | þið vissuð | ||
hann, hún, það vissi | þeir, þær, þau vissu | hann, hún, það vissi | þeir, þær, þau vissu | ||
imperative (boðháttur) |
vit (þú) | vitið (þið) | |||
Forms with appended personal pronoun | |||||
vittu | vitiði * | ||||
* Spoken form, usually not written; in writing, the unappended plural form (optionally followed by the full pronoun) is preferred. |
Derived termsEdit
- þúst
- eins og alþjóð veit
- eitt mátt þú vita
- vita vel/vita fyrir víst/vita með vissu/vita fyrir satt (to be sure)
- Hann er svindlari og ég veit þetta fyrir víst.
- það er ekki að vita/það er aldrei að vita (you never know)
- Það er aldrei að vita hvenær næsta tækifæri býðst.
- láta [einhvern] vita (to let [someone] know)
- Látið mig vita ef ykkur vantar eitthvað.
- það má guð vita/það má hamingjan vita/það má fjandinn vita/það má Óðinn vita (God knows)
- Hvernig förum við að því að borga þetta? Það má fjandinn vita.
- vita um eitthvað/ vita um einhvern (to know about something/someone)
- Ég veit ekkert um þetta mál.
- vita af einhverju (know about something)
- vita af sér (to be pleased with one self)
- Hann er laglegur og veit af sér.
- (archaic) vita á eitthvað (predicts)
- Þessi draumur veit á illt.
- vita til einhvers (to know something. bad/good:)
- Það er hörmulegt að vita til þess að það skuli ekki vera hægt að lækna þetta
- vita ekki haus né sporð á einhverju (know nothing about something)
- Veistu hverskonar maður hann er?- Nei, ég veit ekki haus né sporð á honum.
Etymology 2Edit
NounEdit
vita
- inflection of viti:
InterlinguaEdit
NounEdit
vita (plural vitas)
Related termsEdit
ItalianEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Latin vīta, from Proto-Italic *gʷītā, possibly a derivative of Proto-Indo-European *gʷih₃wo-teh₂, from the root *gʷeyh₃- (“to live”).
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
vita f (plural vite)
- life
- 1472, Dante Alighieri, La divina commedia: Inferno [The Divine Comedy: Hell] (paperback), 12th edition, Le Monnier, published 1994, Canto I, page 5:
- Nel mezzo del cammin di nostra vita
mi ritrovai per una selva oscura,
ché la diritta via era smarrita.- Midway upon the journey of our life
I found myself within a forest dark,
for the straight-forward pathway had been lost.
- Midway upon the journey of our life
- waist
Related termsEdit
AnagramsEdit
LadinEdit
EtymologyEdit
NounEdit
vita f (plural vites)
LatinEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Proto-Italic *gʷītā. Possibly corresponds to a derivative of Proto-Indo-European *gʷih₃wo-teh₂ (compare Ancient Greek βίοτος (bíotos, “life”), Old Irish bethu, bethad, Irish beatha, Welsh bywyd, Old Church Slavonic животъ (životŭ, “life”), Lithuanian gyvatà (“life”), Sanskrit जीवित (jīvitá), Avestan gayo (accusative ǰyātum) "life")), ultimately from *gʷeyh₃- (“to live”).
PronunciationEdit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈu̯iː.ta/, [ˈu̯iːt̪ä]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈvi.ta/, [ˈviːt̪ä]
Audio (Classical) (file)
NounEdit
vīta f (genitive vītae); first declension
- life
- Synonym: lūx
- (by extension) living, support, subsistence
- a way of life
- real life, not fiction
- (figuratively) mankind, the living
DeclensionEdit
First-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | vīta | vītae |
Genitive | vītae | vītārum |
Dative | vītae | vītīs |
Accusative | vītam | vītās |
Ablative | vītā | vītīs |
Vocative | vīta | vītae |
Derived termsEdit
Related termsEdit
DescendantsEdit
- Corsican: vita
- Dalmatian: vaita
- Emilian: vétta
- Franco-Provençal: via
- Friulian: vite
- Istriot: veîta
- Italian: vita
- Ladin: vita
- Lombard: vita
- Megleno-Romanian: vítă
- Navarro-Aragonese: vida
- Neapolitan: vita, bita
- Old French: vie
- Old Leonese: vida
- Old Occitan:
- Old Galician-Portuguese: vida
- Old Spanish: vida
- Piedmontese: vita
- Romagnol: vita
- Romanian: vită
- Romansch: vita
- Sabir: vita
- Sardinian: vida
- Shona: vida, bida, vira, vita
- Sicilian: vita
- Venetian: vita
- → Interlingua: vita
VerbEdit
vītā
ReferencesEdit
- “vita”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “vita”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “vita”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- vita 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)
MalagasyEdit
AdjectiveEdit
vita
VerbEdit
vita
- To finish, complete, do, accomplish.
Related termsEdit
Focus (Voice) | |
Agent (Active) |
man-form: mamita |
mi-form: -- | |
om-form: -- | |
Patient (Passive) |
vitaina |
alternate: -- | |
a-form: -- | |
voa-form: -- | |
tafa-form: -- | |
Goal (Relative) |
an-form: amitana |
i-form: -- |
See alsoEdit
NeapolitanEdit
Alternative formsEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Latin vīta. Compare Italian vita.
NounEdit
vita f (plural vite)
Norwegian NynorskEdit
Etymology 1Edit
From Old Norse vita, from Proto-Germanic *witaną, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *weyd- (“see”).
Alternative formsEdit
- vete, vite (e infinitives)
- veta (a infinitive)
- væta, vætæ, vata, våtå, vytå, vøtå, voto, veita, vessta (dialectal)
PronunciationEdit
VerbEdit
vita (present tense veit, past tense visste, past participle visst, passive infinitive vitast, present participle vitande, imperative vit)
- To know.
- Veit du kva dette er?
- Do you know what this is?
Derived termsEdit
Etymology 2Edit
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
vita n (definite singular vitaet, indefinite plural vita, definite plural vitaa)
Etymology 3Edit
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
vita n
ReferencesEdit
- “vita” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Old NorseEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Proto-Germanic *witaną (“to know”), from Proto-Indo-European *wóyde (“to have seen, know”), originally a perfect form of *weyd- (“to see”).
Cognate with Old English witan, Old Frisian wita, Old Saxon witan, Old Dutch witan, Old High German wizzan, Gothic 𐍅𐌹𐍄𐌰𐌽 (witan).
VerbEdit
vita (singular past indicative vissi, plural past indicative vissu, past participle vitaðr)
- to know
ConjugationEdit
infinitive | vita | |
---|---|---|
present participle | vitandi | |
past participle | vitaðr | |
indicative | present | past |
1st-person singular | veit | vissa |
2nd-person singular | veizt | vissir |
3rd-person singular | veit | vissi |
1st-person plural | vitum | vissum |
2nd-person plural | vituð | vissuð |
3rd-person plural | vitu | vissu |
subjunctive | present | past |
1st-person singular | vita | vissa |
2nd-person singular | vitir | vissir |
3rd-person singular | viti | vissi |
1st-person plural | vitim | vissim |
2nd-person plural | vitið | vissið |
3rd-person plural | viti | vissi |
imperative | present | |
2nd-person singular | vit | |
1st-person plural | vitum | |
2nd-person plural | vituð |
DescendantsEdit
Old SwedishEdit
Etymology 1Edit
From Old Norse vita, from Proto-Germanic *witaną.
VerbEdit
vita
- To know.
ConjugationEdit
present | past | ||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
infinitive | vita | — | |||
participle | vitandi | vist, vitit, vitat (ntr.) | |||
active voice | indicative | subjunctive | imperative | indicative | subjunctive |
iæk | vēt | viti | — | vissi | vissi |
þū | vēst | viti | vit | vissi | vissi |
han | vēt | viti | — | vissi | vissi |
vīr | vitum | vitum | vitum | vissum | vissum |
īr | vitin | vitin | vitin | vissin | vissin |
þēr | vitu | vitin | — | vissu | vissin |
mediopassive voice | indicative | subjunctive | imperative | indicative | subjunctive |
iæk | — | — | — | — | — |
þū | — | — | — | — | — |
han | — | — | — | — | — |
vīr | — | — | — | — | — |
īr | — | — | — | — | — |
þēr | — | — | — | — | — |
DescendantsEdit
- Swedish: veta
Etymology 2Edit
From Old Norse víta, from Proto-Germanic *wītaną.
VerbEdit
vīta
ConjugationEdit
present | past | ||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
infinitive | vīta | — | |||
participle | vītandi, vītande | vītter | |||
active voice | indicative | subjunctive | imperative | indicative | subjunctive |
iæk | vītir | vīti, vīte | — | vītti, vītte | vītti, vītte |
þū | vītir | vīti, vīte | vīt | vītti, vītte | vītti, vītte |
han | vītir | vīti, vīte | — | vītti, vītte | vītti, vītte |
vīr | vītum, vītom | vītum, vītom | vītum, vītom | vīttum, vīttom | vīttum, vīttom |
īr | vītin | vītin | vītin | vīttin | vīttin |
þēr | vīta | vītin | — | vīttu, vītto | vīttin |
mediopassive voice | indicative | subjunctive | imperative | indicative | subjunctive |
iæk | vītis | vītis, vītes | — | vīttis, vīttes | vīttis, vīttes |
þū | vītis | vītis, vītes | — | vīttis, vīttes | vīttis, vīttes |
han | vītis | vītis, vītes | — | vīttis, vīttes | vīttis, vīttes |
vīr | vītums, vītoms | vītums, vītoms | — | vīttums, vīttoms | vīttums, vīttoms |
īr | vītins | vītins | — | vīttins | vīttins |
þēr | vītas | vītins | — | vīttus, vīttos | vīttins |
PiedmonteseEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Latin vīta, from Proto-Italic *gʷītā, possibly a derivative of Proto-Indo-European *gʷih₃wo-teh₂, from the root *gʷeyh₃- (“to live”).
NounEdit
vita f (plural vite)
RomanschEdit
Etymology 1Edit
NounEdit
vita f (plural vitas)
Alternative formsEdit
- veta (Sursilvan, Sutsilvan, Surmiran)
Etymology 2Edit
Related to Etymology 1 above, similar to Italian vita.
NounEdit
vita f (plural vitas)
Alternative formsEdit
- veta (Sursilvan, Sutsilvan, Surmiran)
SynonymsEdit
- taglia (Rumantsch Grischun, Surmiran, Puter)
Serbo-CroatianEdit
ParticipleEdit
vita (Cyrillic spelling вита)
SwahiliEdit
PronunciationEdit
Audio (Kenya) (file)
NounEdit
vita
Derived termsEdit
- vita baridi (“cold war”)
- vita vya msituni (“guerrilla war”)
- vita vya wenyewe kwa wenyewe (“civil war”)
- Vita Kuu ya Kwanza ya Dunia (“World War I”)
- Vita Kuu ya Pili ya Dunia (“World War II”)
SwedishEdit
AdjectiveEdit
vita
- absolute singular definite and plural form of vit.
TsongaEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Proto-Bantu *-bɪ́dia, causative form of Proto-Bantu *-bɪ́da.
VerbEdit
vita
- To call.