vicis

Catalan

Pronunciation

Noun

vicis

  1. plural of vici

Latin

Etymology 1

From Proto-Indo-European *weyk- (“to curve, bend”).[1] Cognate with vinciō, Ancient Greek εἴκω (eíkō), English week, German Wechsel (“change”), Northern Sami viker (“willow twig, wand”), Old Norse vikja (“to bend, turn”), Old English wician (“to yield, give way”), wice (“wych elm”), Sanskrit विष्टी (viṣṭī, “changeable, changing”).

Pronunciation

Noun

vicis f (genitive, third declension)

  1. change, alternation, turn
    in vicem ― mutually, reciprocally
  2. time, instance
  3. (by extension) season
  4. succession
  5. condition, lot
  6. The position, room, place, stead, post, office or duty of one person assumed by another
Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative — vicēs
Genitive vicis —
Dative vicī vicibus
Accusative vicem vicēs
Ablative vice vicibus
Vocative — —

Note: some cases do not occur due to the collocational/syntactic limitations of this word.

Derived terms
Descendants
  • Italo-Romance:
    • Italian: vece
  • Insular Romance:
    • ⇒ Sardinian: vicanu, bicaniu
  • North Italian:
    • Old Piedmontese: vèis
    • ⇒? Friulian: vecis
  • Gallo-Romance:
  • Occitano-Romance:
    • Old Catalan: veu
    • Gascon: vetz
    • Old Occitan: vetz
      • Limousin: vetz
  • Ibero-Romance:
    • Asturian: vez
    • Extremaduran: ves
    • Mirandese: beç
    • Old Galician-Portuguese: vez
    • Spanish: vez
  • Vulgar Latin: *vicenda
    • Italian: vicenda
      • → Ligurian: vicénda
  • Borrowings:
    • → Portuguese: vice, vis-

Pronunciation

Noun

vīcīs m

  1. dative/ablative plural of vīcus (“village, municipal”)

References
  1. De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “vicis”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 674-5
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