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Webster 1913 Edition


Vitis


Vi′tis

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Noun.
[L., a vine.]
(Bot.)
A genus of plants including all true grapevines.

Definition 2024


Vitis

Vitis

See also: vitis

Translingual

Proper noun

Vitis f

  1. A taxonomic genus within the family Vitaceae – the grapevine.

Hypernyms

Hyponyms

vitis

vitis

See also: Vitis

Friulian

Noun

vitis

  1. plural of vite

Latin

Etymology 1

From Proto-Indo-European *wéh₁itis (that which twines or bends, branch, switch), from *weh₁y- (to turn, wind, bend). See Latin vieō and English withe.

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈwiː.tis/, [ˈwiː.tɪs]

Noun

vītis f (genitive vītis); third declension

  1. vine
    • c. 37 BCE – 30 BCE, Virgil, Georgicon 4.269
      vel psithia passos de vite racemos
      [] or dried clusters of grapes from Psithian vine[s]
    • c. 160-220 CE, Tertullian, De Judicio Domini, 22
      quid faciat laetis ut vitis abaestuet uvis
      What makes a vine hang down richly with grapes
  2. (historical) a vine staff, the baton or cane of a Roman centurion
Inflection

Third declension i-stem.

Case Singular Plural
nominative vītis vītēs
genitive vītis vītium
dative vītī vītibus
accusative vītem vītēs
ablative vīte vītibus
vocative vītis vītēs
Descendants

Etymology 2

Inflected form of vīta (life)

Pronunciation

Noun

vītīs

  1. dative plural of vīta
  2. ablative plural of vīta

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