vivus
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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
- alive, living
- (of inanimate things) having properties like a living thing, e.g. moving, fresh, uncut
- (substantive) living thing
InflectionEdit
| 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 | vīvae | vīvō | vīvīs | vīvīs | vīvīs | |
| Accusative | vīvum | vīvam | vīvum | vīvōs | vīvās | vīva | |
| Ablative | vīvō | vīvā | vīvō | vīvīs | vīvīs | 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. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- vivus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- vivus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 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)