Vectis

Borrowed from Latin Vectis.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈvɛk.tɪs/

Vectis

1. the Isle of Wight

The name is used principally in the names of organisations, e.g. the main bus company on the Island Southern Vectis, and in the context of Roman and Romano-British era history.

• vectensis
• Vectisian

• civets, evicts

• Vecta

Possibly of Celtic origin, borrowed from Proto-Celtic *Ixtis (literally “nether”) (compare Irish ìosal (“low”), Welsh isel). However, there are other theories, such as a relation to Proto-Germanic *wihtiz (“creature, thing”), Proto-Celtic *wextā (“course, turn, time”), or simply from or influenced by Latin vectis (“lever, gate, separator”).[1] More at Isle of Wight.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈu̯eːk.tis/, [ˈu̯eːkt̪ɪs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈvek.tis/, [ˈvɛkt̪is]

Vēctis f sg (genitive Vēctis); third declension

1. Isle of Wight (an island in Western Europe, off the south coast of Great Britain, separated from the mainland by a narrow strait called the Solent)
   • For quotations using this term, see Citations:Vectis.

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Third-declension noun (i-stem), with locative, singular only.

• English: Vectis

• “2. Vectis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• 2 Vectis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.: “1,650/1”

• Vectis insula on the Latin Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^la