See also: Vitta and vittâ

English

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Latin vitta.

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Noun

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vitta (plural vittae)

  1. A fillet, or garland for the head.
  2. (zoology) A longitudinal stripe.
    • 1870, American Entomologist and Botanist, volume 2, page 301:
      The curved black line behind the scutel is usually expanded, in connection with the metathoracic black vitta, into a broad black triangle, the apex of which does not quite attain the abdominal peduncle.
  3. (botany) An oil tube in the fruit of some plants.

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Latin

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Latin vieō (to plait, weave), perhaps via an earlier *vīta, a to-particle of vieō (< *uiH-to-).[1]

Pronunciation

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Noun

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vitta f (genitive vittae); first declension

  1. band, ribbon
  2. fillet, headband, chaplet

Declension

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First-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative vitta vittae
genitive vittae vittārum
dative vittae vittīs
accusative vittam vittās
ablative vittā vittīs
vocative vitta vittae

Descendants

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  • Italo-Romance:
    • Italian: vetta
    • Sicilian: vitta
  • Gallo-Romance:
  • Ibero-Romance:
    • Old Galician-Portuguese:
    • Old Spanish:
  • Vulgar Latin: *bitta
    • Balkano-Romance:
    • Ibero-Romance:
      • Old Galician-Portuguese:
      • Old Spanish:
  • Vulgar Latin: *vittula (diminutive)
  • Borrowings:

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  1. ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “vieō (> Derivatives > vitta 'linen headband, woollen band')”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 677

Further reading

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  • vitta”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • vitta in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Old Norse

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Noun

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vitta

  1. genitive plural of vitt