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 m (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 | 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
- Aromanian: yiu, ghiu, viu
- Asturian: vivu
- Catalan: viu
- Corsican: vivu
- Dalmatian: vi
- French: vif
- Friulian: vîf, vîv
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
- du Cange, Charles (1883), “vivus”, in G. A. Louis Henschel, Pierre Carpentier, Léopold Favre, editors, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (in Latin), Niort: L. Favre
- “vivus” in Félix Gaffiot’s Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette (1934)
- 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)