vitta
English
editEtymology
editPronunciation
edit- Rhymes: -ɪtə
Noun
editvitta (plural vittae)
- A fillet, or garland for the head.
- (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.
- (botany) An oil tube in the fruit of some plants.
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editLatin
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editFrom Latin vieō (“to plait, weave”), perhaps via an earlier *vīta, a to-particle of vieō (< *uiH-to-).[1]
Pronunciation
edit- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈwɪt.ta]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈvit̪.t̪a]
Noun
editvitta f (genitive vittae); first declension
Declension
editFirst-declension noun.
singular | plural | |
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nominative | vitta | vittae |
genitive | vittae | vittārum |
dative | vittae | vittīs |
accusative | vittam | vittās |
ablative | vittā | vittīs |
vocative | vitta | vittae |
Descendants
editReferences
edit- ^ 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
edit- “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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