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VITA,

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Definitions and meaning of vita

vita

English

Etymology

From Latin vīta (“life”). Doublet of quick and jiva.

Noun

vita (plural vitae or vitas or (archaic) vitæ)

  1. A hagiography; a biography of a saint.
  2. A curriculum vitae.

See also

Czech

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈvɪta]

Participle

vita

  1. inflection of vít:
    1. feminine singular passive participle
    2. neuter plural passive participle

Dutch

Alternative forms

  • Vita

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Medieval Latin vīta.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈvi.taː/
  • Homophone: Vita

Noun

vita f (plural vitae)

  1. (literature) vita (hagiography)
    Synonyms: heiligenleven, hagiografie
    Hypernyms: biografie, levensbeschrijving, leven
    Zijn vertaling van deze vita is onbetrouwbaar. ― His translation of this vita is unreliable.
    De eerste vita over haar leven werd in de achtste eeuw geschreven. ― The first vita concerning her life was written in the eighth century.

Usage notes

  • When encountered in capitalized form (Vita), if not simply the female given name, the word is generally an abbreviated proper noun referring to a specific hagiography. Nonetheless, the common noun plural Vitae (e.g. "deze Vitae zijn [...]") is attested.

Related terms

Faroese

Etymology 1

From Old Norse vita, from Proto-Germanic *witaną, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *weyd- (“see”).

Verb

vita (third person singular past indicative visti, third person plural past indicative vistu, supine vitað)

  1. To know.
Conjugation
Related terms
  • vitan
  • vitigur
  • vitlítil
  • vitleysur

See also

  • vitja

Etymology 2

Inflected form of viti

Noun

vita m

  1. indefinite accusative singular of viti
  2. indefinite dative singular of viti
  3. indefinite genitive singular of viti
  4. indefinite genitive plural of viti

Finnish

Etymology

Means "water slime" in dialects. Origin unknown.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈʋitɑ/, [ˈʋit̪ɑ̝]
  • Rhymes: -itɑ
  • Syllabification(key): vi‧ta
  • Hyphenation(key): vi‧ta

Noun

vita

  1. pondweed (an aquatic plant of the genus Potamogeton)

Declension

Hypernyms

  • uposkasvi (an underwater plant)
  • vitakasvi (a plant of the family Potamogetonaceae)

Hyponyms

  • ahvenvita (Potamogeton perfoliatus)
  • hapsivita (Potamogeton pectinatus)
  • heinävita (Potamogeton gramineus)
  • hentovita (Potamogeton pusillus)
  • jouhivita (Potamogeton rutilus)
  • kyhmyvita (Potamogeton trichoides)
  • litteävita (Potamogeton compressus)
  • lähdevita (Potamogeton coloratus)
  • merivita (Potamogeton filiformis)
  • nauhavita (Potamogeton x sparganiifolius)
  • otalehtivita (Potamogeton friesii)
  • pikkuvita (Potamogeton berchtoldii)
  • pitkälehtivita (Potamogeton praelongus)
  • poimuvita (Potamogeton crispus)
  • purovita (Potamogeton alpinus)
  • soikkovita (Potamogeton nodosus)
  • suippuvita (Potamogeton acutifolius)
  • tatarvita (Potamogeton polygonifolius)
  • tuppivita (Potamogeton vaginatus)
  • tylppälehtivita (Potamogeton obtusifolius)
  • uistinvita (Potamogeton natans)
  • vaskivita (Potamogeton x angustifolius)
  • välkevita (Potamogeton lucens)

Derived terms

Further reading

  • “vita”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎[1] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-04

Anagrams

  • ivat, tavi, vati, viat

Gallurese

Etymology

From Classical Latin vīta, from Proto-Italic *gʷītā, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *gʷeyh₃- (“to live”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈvita/

Noun

vita f (plural viti)

  1. life

References

Hungarian

Etymology

Back-formation from vitat.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈvitɒ]
  • Hyphenation: vi‧ta
  • Rhymes: -tɒ

Noun

vita (plural viták)

  1. debate, dispute, discussion

Declension

Derived terms

References

Further reading

  • vita in Géza Bárczi, László Országh, et al., editors, A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára [The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (ÉrtSz.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN.

Icelandic

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈvɪːta/
  • Rhymes: -ɪːta

Etymology 1

From Old Norse vita, from Proto-Germanic *witaną, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *weyd- (“see”).

Verb

vita (preterite-present verb, third-person singular present indicative veit, third-person singular past indicative vissi, supine vitað)

  1. to know (information), know of something
  2. to see, check
Conjugation
Derived terms
  • þúst
  • eins og alþjóð veit
  • eitt mátt þú vita
  • vita vel/vita fyrir víst/vita með vissu/vita fyrir satt (“to be sure”)
    Hann er svindlari og ég veit þetta fyrir víst.
  • það er ekki að vita/það er aldrei að vita (“you never know”)
    Það er aldrei að vita hvenær næsta tækifæri býðst.
  • láta [einhvern] vita (“to let [someone] know”)
    Látið mig vita ef ykkur vantar eitthvað.
  • það má guð vita/það má hamingjan vita/það má fjandinn vita/það má Óðinn vita (“God knows”)
  • Hvernig förum við að því að borga þetta? Það má fjandinn vita.
  • vita um eitthvað/ vita um einhvern (“to know about something/someone”)
    Ég veit ekkert um þetta mál.
  • vita af einhverju (know about something)
  • vita af sér (“to be pleased with one self”)
    Hann er laglegur og veit af sér.
  • vita á eitthvað (“predicts”) (archaic)
    Þessi draumur veit á illt.
  • vita til einhvers (“to know something. bad/good:”)
    Það er hörmulegt að vita til þess að það skuli ekki vera hægt að lækna þetta
  • vita ekki haus né sporð á einhverju (“know nothing about something”)
    Veistu hverskonar maður hann er?- Nei, ég veit ekki haus né sporð á honum.

Etymology 2

Noun

vita

  1. inflection of viti:
    1. indefinite accusative
    2. indefinite dative singular
    3. indefinite genitive

Interlingua

Noun

vita (plural vitas)

  1. life

Related terms

  • vital

Italian

Etymology

From Latin vīta, from Proto-Italic *gʷītā, possibly a derivative of Proto-Indo-European *gʷih₃wo-teh₂, from the root *gʷeyh₃- (“to live”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈvi.ta/
  • Rhymes: -ita
  • Hyphenation: vì‧ta

Noun

vita f (plural vite)

  1. life
  2. waist

Related terms

Anagrams

  • vati

Ladin

Etymology

From Latin vīta.

Noun

vita f (plural vites)

  1. life

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *gʷītā. Possibly corresponds to a derivative of Proto-Indo-European *gʷih₃wo-teh₂ (compare Ancient Greek βίοτος (bíotos, “life”), Old Irish bethu, bethad, Irish beatha, Welsh bywyd, Old Church Slavonic животъ (životŭ, “life”), Lithuanian gyvatà (“life”), Sanskrit जीवित (jīvitá), Avestan gayo (accusative ǰyātum) "life")), ultimately from *gʷeyh₃- (“to live”).

Pronunciation

  • (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈwiː.ta]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈviː.t̪a]

Noun

vīta f (genitive vītae); first declension

  1. life
    Synonym: lūx
  2. (by extension) living, support, subsistence
  3. a way of life
  4. real life, not fiction
  5. (figuratively) mankind, the living
  6. (Medieval Latin) biography, life (particularly but not necessarily a hagiography)

Declension

First-declension noun.

Derived terms

Related terms

Descendants

Verb

vītā

  1. second-person singular present active imperative of vītō

References

  • “vita”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “vita”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • Zoëga, Geir T. (1910) “vita”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press; also available at the Internet Archive
  • "vita", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)

Lombard

Etymology

From Latin vita.

Noun

vita f (plural vite)

  1. life

Malagasy

Adjective

vita

  1. finished, complete, completed
  2. (figuratively) dead

Verb

vita

  1. To finish, complete, do, accomplish.

Related terms

See also

  • mahavita

Mwani

Noun

vita

  1. war

Neapolitan

Etymology

Inherited from Latin vīta. Compare Italian vita.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈvitə/

Noun

vita f (plural vite)

  1. life

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology 1

From Old Norse vita, from Proto-Germanic *witaną, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *weyd- (“see”).

Alternative forms

  • vete, vite (e infinitives)
  • veta (a infinitive)
  • væta, vætæ, vata, våtå, vytå, vøtå, voto, veita, vessta (dialectal)

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /²ʋɪ(ː)ta/
  • Hyphenation: vì‧ta

Verb

vita (present tense veit, past tense visste, past participle visst, passive infinitive vitast, present participle vitande, imperative vit)

  1. To know.
Derived terms
  • allvitande

Etymology 2

From Latin vita (“life”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /¹ʋiːtɑ/

Noun

vita n (definite singular vitaet, indefinite plural vita, definite plural vitaa)

  1. biography
    Synonym: biografi

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /¹ʋiːtɑ/

Noun

vita n

  1. definite plural of vit

References

  • “vita” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Old Norse

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *witaną (“to know”), from Proto-Indo-European *wóyde (“to have seen, know”), originally a perfect form of *weyd- (“to see”).

Cognate with Old English witan, Old Frisian wita, Old Saxon witan, Old Dutch witan, Old High German wiȥȥan, Gothic 𐍅𐌹𐍄𐌰𐌽 (witan).

Verb

vita (singular past indicative vissi, plural past indicative vissu, past participle vitaðr)

  1. to know

Conjugation

Descendants

Old Swedish

Alternative forms

  • ᚠᛁᛏᛆ (Runic)

Etymology 1

From Old Norse vita, from Proto-Germanic *witaną.

Verb

vita

  1. To know.
Conjugation
Descendants
  • Swedish: veta

Etymology 2

From Old Norse víta, from Proto-Germanic *wītaną.

Verb

vīta

  1. To prove.
  2. To accuse.
Conjugation

Piedmontese

Etymology

From Latin vīta, from Proto-Italic *gʷītā, possibly a derivative of Proto-Indo-European *gʷih₃wo-teh₂, from the root *gʷeyh₃- (“to live”).

Noun

vita f (plural vite)

  1. life

Romansch

Etymology 1

From Latin vīta.

Noun

vita f (plural vitas)

  1. (Rumantsch Grischun, Puter, Vallader) life
Alternative forms
  • veta (Sursilvan, Sutsilvan, Surmiran)

Etymology 2

Related to Etymology 1 above, similar to Italian vita.

Noun

vita f (plural vitas)

  1. (anatomy, Rumantsch Grischun, Vallader) waist
Alternative forms
  • veta (Sursilvan, Sutsilvan, Surmiran)
Synonyms
  • taglia (Rumantsch Grischun, Surmiran, Puter)

Serbo-Croatian

Participle

vita (Cyrillic spelling вита)

  1. inflection of viti:
    1. feminine singular passive past participle
    2. neuter plural passive past participle

Swahili

Pronunciation

Noun

vita

  1. plural of kita

vita class VIII (plural vita class VIII)

  1. war

Derived terms

  • vita baridi (“cold war”)
  • vita vya msituni (“guerrilla war”)
  • vita vya wenyewe kwa wenyewe (“civil war”)
  • Vita Kuu ya Kwanza ya Dunia (“World War I”)
  • Vita Kuu ya Pili ya Dunia (“World War II”)

Swedish

Adjective

vita

  1. inflection of vit:
    1. definite singular
    2. plural

Tsonga

Etymology

From Proto-Bantu *-bɪ́dia, causative form of Proto-Bantu *-bɪ́da.

Verb

vita

  1. To call.

Source: wiktionary.org