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vivus
vivus
Latin
Etymology
From Proto-Italic *gʷīwos, from Proto-Indo-European *gʷih₃wós (“alive”), from *gʷeyh₃- (“to live”) + *-wós (whence Latin -vus).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈwiː.wus/, [ˈwiː.wʊs]
Adjective
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
Inflection
First/second declension.
| 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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References
- 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
- VIVUS in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
- Félix Gaffiot (1934), “vivus”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
- Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- running water: aqua viva, profluens (opp. stagnum)
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(ambiguous) to take a person alive: capere aliquem vivum
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(ambiguous) I do not take that too strictly: non id ad vivum reseco (Lael. 5. 8)
- running water: aqua viva, profluens (opp. stagnum)