Translingual

Proper noun

Vitis f

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

Hypernyms

• (genus): Plantae - kingdom; angiosperms, eudicots, core eudicots, rosids - clades; Vitales - order; Vitaceae - family; Vitoideae - subfamily

Hyponyms

• (genus): Vitis subg. Muscadinia, Vitis subg. Vitis - subgenera
  • Vitis vinifera - type species

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.

Descendants

Etymology 2

Inflected form of vīta ‎(“life”)

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈwiː.tiːs/

Noun

vītīs

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

References

• vitis in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• vitis in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• VITIS in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “vitis”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• vitis in William Smith., editor (1854, 1857) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly