FromLatin vīta ( “ life ” ) .Doublet ofquick jiva
vita (plural vitae or vitas or ( archaic ) vitæ
Ahagiography ; abiography of asaint . Acurriculum vitae . vita
inflection ofvít feminine singular passive participle neuter plural passive participle Learned borrowing fromMedieval Latin vīta
vita f plural vitae
( literature ) vita ( hagiography ) Synonyms: heiligenleven hagiografie Hypernyms: biografie levensbeschrijving leven Zijn vertaling van dezevita is onbetrouwbaar. ―His translation of thisvita is unreliable. De eerstevita over haar leven werd in de achtste eeuw geschreven. ―The firstvita concerning her life was written in the eighth century. When encountered in capitalized form (Vita ), if not simply the female given name, the word is generally an abbreviatedproper noun referring to a specific hagiography. Nonetheless, the common noun pluralVitae (e.g. "deze Vitae zijn [...]") is attested. FromOld Norse vita Proto-Germanic *witaną Proto-Indo-European *weyd- ( “ see ” ) .
vita (third person singular past indicative visti third person plural past indicative vistu supine vitað
Toknow . Inflected form ofviti
vita m
indefinite accusative singular ofviti indefinite dative singular ofviti indefinite genitive singular ofviti indefinite genitive plural ofviti Means "water slime" in dialects. Origin unknown.
vita
pondweed ( anaquatic plant of the genusPotamogeton ) FromClassical Latin vīta Proto-Italic *gʷītā Proto-Indo-European *gʷeyh₃- ( “ to live ” ) .
vita f plural viti
life ^ Mauro Maxia (2012 )Fonetica storica del gallurese e delle altre varietà sardocorse (in Gallurese), Editrice Taphros,→ISBN Back-formation fromvitat [ 1]
vita (plural viták
debate ,dispute ,discussion vita in Géza Bárczi ,László Országh ,et al. , editors,A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára [The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language Fifth ed., 1992:→ISBN . FromOld Norse vita Proto-Germanic *witaną Proto-Indo-European *weyd- ( “ see ” ) .
vita (preterite-present verb ,third-person singular present indicative veit third-person singular past indicative vissi supine vitað
toknow (information), know of somethingAð heyra barn hlæja er það fallegasta sem égveit . To hear a child laughing is the most beautiful thing Iknow . Vissir þú að við lentum aldrei á tunglinu í alvörunni? Það var allt feik.Did youknow we never really landed on the moon? It was all fake. tosee ,check Vittu nú hvort þú getir ekki lagað þetta fyrir mig.Nowsee if you can't fix that for me. 1 Spoken form, usually not written; in writing, the unappended plural form (optionally followed by the full pronoun) is preferred.
vita
inflection ofviti indefinite accusative indefinite dative singular indefinite genitive vita (plural vitas
life FromLatin vīta Proto-Italic *gʷītā Proto-Indo-European *gʷih₃wo-teh₂ *gʷeyh₃- ( “ to live ” ) .
vita f plural vite
life 1300s–1310s Dante Alighieri , “Canto I ”, inInferno Hell [2] 1–3 ; republished asGiorgio Petrocchi , editor,La Commedia secondo l'antica vulgata [The Commedia according to the ancient vulgate [3] nd revised edition, Florence:publ. Le Lettere ,1994 :Nel mezzo del cammin di nostravita Halfway through the journey of ourlife , I found myself inside a dark forest, for the straightforward path was lost. waist FromLatin vīta
vita f plural vites
life FromProto-Italic *gʷītā Proto-Indo-European *gʷih₃wo-teh₂ 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 ) , Avestangayo (accusativeǰyātum ) "life")), ultimately from*gʷeyh₃- ( “ to live ” ) .
vīta f genitive vītae first declension
life Synonym: lūx ( by extension ) living ,support ,subsistence away of life real life , notfiction ( figuratively ) mankind , theliving ( Medieval Latin ) biography ,life (particularly but not necessarily ahagiography )First-declension noun.
Descendants
Balkan-Romance: Dalmato-Romance: Italo-Romance: Insular Romance: North-Italian: Gallo-Romance: Ibero-Romance:Old Leonese:vida Old Galician-Portuguese:vida Old Spanish:vida Borrowing:→ Dutch:vita ( learned ) → English:vita → life ( semantic loan ) ( learned ) Dutch:→ vita ( learned ) ,→ leven ( semantic loan ) → Interlingua:vita ( learned ) vītā
second-person singular present active imperative ofvītō “vita Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879 )A Latin Dictionary “vita Charlton T. Lewis (1891 )An Elementary Latin Dictionary , New York: Harper & Brothers Zoëga, Geir T. (1910 ) “vita ”, inA Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic , Oxford: Clarendon Press Internet Archive "vita ", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’sGlossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis FromLatin vita
vita f plural vite
life 1274 Bonvesin de la Riva ,Libro de Tre Scrigiure :Dra nassion da l’omo, dravita e dra morte, From the tribe of the people, from thelife and of the death, vita
finished ,complete ,completed ( figuratively ) dead vita
Tofinish ,complete ,do ,accomplish . vita
war Inherited fromLatin vīta Italian vita
vita f plural vite
life FromOld Norse vita Proto-Germanic *witaną Proto-Indo-European *weyd- ( “ see ” ) .
IPA (key ) : /²ʋɪ(ː)ta/ Hyphenation:vì‧ta vita (present tense veit past tense visste past participle visst passive infinitive vitast present participle vitande imperative vit
Toknow .Veit du kva dette er?Do youknow what this is? FromLatin vita ( “ life ” ) .
vita n definite singular vitaet indefinite plural vita definite plural vitaa
biography Synonym: biografi See the etymology of the correspondinglemma form.
vita n
definite plural ofvit “vita” inThe Nynorsk Dictionary .FromProto-Germanic *witaną ( “ to know ” ) , fromProto-Indo-European *wóyde ( “ to have seen, know ” ) , originally a perfect form of*weyd- ( “ to see ” ) .
Cognate withOld English witan Old Frisian wita Old Saxon witan Old Dutch witan Old High German wiȥȥan Gothic 𐍅𐌹𐍄𐌰𐌽 ( witan ) .
vita (singular past indicative vissi plural past indicative vissu past participle vitaðr
toknow Icelandic:vita Faroese:vita Norwegian Nynorsk:vita ,veta ( dialectal ) væta ,vætæ ,vata ,våtå ,vytå ,vøtå ,voto ,veita ,vessta Elfdalian:witå Old Swedish:vita ᚠᛁᛏᛆ ( Runic ) Old Danish:witæ Gutnish:vite FromOld Norse vita Proto-Germanic *witaną
vita
Toknow . FromOld Norse víta Proto-Germanic *wītaną
vīta
Toprove . Toaccuse . Conjugation ofvīta present past infinitive vīta — participle vītandi ,vītande vītter active voice indicative subjunctive imperative indicative subjunctive iæk vītir vīti ,vīte — vītti ,vītte vītti ,vītte þū vītir vīti ,vīte vīt vītti ,vītte vītti ,vītte han vītir vīti ,vīte — vītti ,vītte vītti ,vītte vīr vītum ,vītom vītum ,vītom vītum ,vītom vīttum ,vīttom vīttum ,vīttom īr vītin vītin vītin vīttin vīttin þēr vīta vītin — vīttu ,vītto vīttin mediopassive voice indicative subjunctive imperative indicative subjunctive iæk vītis vītis ,vītes — vīttis ,vīttes vīttis ,vīttes þū vītis vītis ,vītes — vīttis ,vīttes vīttis ,vīttes han vītis vītis ,vītes — vīttis ,vīttes vīttis ,vīttes vīr vītums ,vītoms vītums ,vītoms — vīttums ,vīttoms vīttums ,vīttoms īr vītins vītins — vīttins vīttins þēr vītas vītins — vīttus ,vīttos vīttins
FromLatin vīta Proto-Italic *gʷītā Proto-Indo-European *gʷih₃wo-teh₂ *gʷeyh₃- ( “ to live ” ) .
vita f plural vite
life FromLatin vīta
vita f plural vitas
( Rumantsch Grischun , Puter , Vallader ) life Related to Etymology 1 above, similar toItalian vita
vita f plural vitas
( anatomy , Rumantsch Grischun , Vallader ) waist taglia ( Rumantsch Grischun, Surmiran, Puter ) vita (Cyrillic spelling вита
inflection ofviti feminine singular passive past participle neuter plural passive past participle vita
plural ofkita vita classVIII (plural vita classVIII )
war vita
inflection ofvit definite singular plural FromProto-Bantu *-bɪ́dia Proto-Bantu *-bɪ́da
vita
Tocall . 
