vitis

1. plural ofvite

FromProto-Italic*wītis, fromProto-Indo-European*wéh₁itis(“that which twines or bends, branch, switch”), from*weh₁y-(“to turn, wind, bend”). SeeLatinvieō and Englishwithe.

• (Classical Latin)IPA^(key):/ˈu̯iː.tis/,[ˈu̯iːt̪ɪs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical)IPA^(key):/ˈvi.tis/,[ˈviːt̪is]

vītis f (genitivevītis);third declension

1. vine,grapevine
   • c. 37BCE – 30BCE,Virgil,Georgics4.269:

     vel psithia passos devite racemos

     […] or dried clusters of grapes from Psithian vine[s]

   • c. 160-220C.E.,Tertullian,De Judicio Domini, 22

     quid faciat laetis utvitis abaestuet uvis

     What makes avine hang down richly with grapes

2. (historical) avine staff, thebaton orcane (made of grapevine) of aRomancenturion
3. anyvine
   • c. 500CE,Palladius,Opus Agriculturae 4.9.9:

     Si eius [cucumeris] florem, sicut invite sua est, in forma fictili clauseris ac ligaris,[…]

     If you close and tie its [the cucumber plant's] flower in a clay mold, as it is on its ownvine,[…]

Third-declension noun (i-stem).

• vīticula

For other descendants, seevīteus.

Inflected form ofvīta(“life”).

• (Classical Latin)IPA^(key):/ˈu̯iː.tiːs/,[ˈu̯iːt̪iːs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical)IPA^(key):/ˈvi.tis/,[ˈviːt̪is]

vītīs

1. dative/ablativeplural ofvīta

• “vitis”, inCharlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879)A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “vitis”, inCharlton T. Lewis (1891)An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "vitis", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’sGlossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• vitis inGaffiot, Félix (1934)Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “vitis”, inWilliam Smith, editor (1854, 1857),A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly