vivus
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VerbEdit
vivus
- conditional of vivi
IdoEdit
VerbEdit
vivus
- conditional of vivar
LatinEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Proto-Italic *gʷīwos, from Proto-Indo-European *gʷih₃wós (“alive”), from *gʷeyh₃- (“to live”) + *-wós (whence Latin -vus).
PronunciationEdit
AdjectiveEdit
vīvus (feminine vīva, neuter vīvum); first/second-declension adjective
- alive, living
- native, genuine, in the natural state
- bright, lit, burning, kindled
- (of the river) current
- durable, lasting, persistent
- lively, ardent
DeclensionEdit
First/second-declension adjective.
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
| Nominative | vīvus | vīva | vīvum | vīvī | vīvae | vīva | |
| Genitive | vīvī | vīvae | vīvī | vīvōrum | vīvārum | vīvōrum | |
| Dative | vīvō | vīvō | vīvīs | ||||
| Accusative | vīvum | vīvam | vīvum | vīvōs | vīvās | vīva | |
| Ablative | vīvō | vīvā | vīvō | vīvīs | |||
| Vocative | vīve | vīva | vīvum | vīvī | vīvae | vīva | |
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DescendantsEdit
- Aragonese: vivo
- Aromanian: yiu, ghiu, viu
- Asturian: vivu
- Catalan: viu
- Corsican: vivu
- Dalmatian: vi
- French: vif
- Friulian: vîf, vîv
- Galician: vivo
- Istro-Romanian: viu
- Italian: vivo
- Megleno-Romanian: ghiu, viu
- Mirandese: bibo
- Occitan: viu
- Piedmontese: viv
- Portuguese: vivo
- Romanian: viu
- Romansch: viv, veiv
- Sardinian: bibu, biu, bivu, viu
- Sicilian: vivu
- Spanish: vivo
- Venetian: vivo
ReferencesEdit
- “vivus”, in Charlton T[homas] Lewis; Charles [Lancaster] Short (1879) […] A New Latin Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.; Cincinnati, Ohio; Chicago, Ill.: American Book Company; Oxford: Clarendon Press.
- “vivus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- vivus in Enrico Olivetti, editor (2003-2022) Dizionario Latino, Olivetti Media Communication
- vivus 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)
- vivus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
- Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- running water: aqua viva, profluens (opp. stagnum)
- (ambiguous) to take a person alive: capere aliquem vivum
- (ambiguous) I do not take that too strictly: non id ad vivum reseco (Lael. 5. 8)
- running water: aqua viva, profluens (opp. stagnum)