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Etymology

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Proto-Indo-European*weyk-
Proto-Italic*wiks
Latinvix

    FromProto-Italic*wiks sg(nom.),*wiksu pl(“a turn, bend”,loc.), fromProto-Indo-European*weyk-.[1]

    Pronunciation

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    Adverb

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    vix (notcomparable)

    1. with difficulty, witheffort;scarcely,hardly,barely
      Vix crēdendum est... ―It is hard to believe...
      • 63BCE,Cicero,Catiline OrationsOratio in Catilinam Prima in Senatu Habita.23:
        […] vix feram sermōnēs hominum, sī id fēcerīs,vix mōlem istīus invidiae, sī in exsilium iussū cōnsulis ierīs, sustinēbō.
        […] I shallscarcely endure the talk of men, if you do that, and I shallhardly withstand the burden of that unpopularity if you go into exile by the consul’s command.
      • 27BCE – 25BCE,Titus Livius,Ab Urbe Condita7.13:
        […] ; quamquam de gloriavix dicere ausim, si nos et hostes haud secus quam feminas abditos intra vallum omnibus contumeliis eludunt, et […]
        […] ; though I had as lief not to speak of glory, when the enemy jeers us with much abuse as if women concealing behind walls, and […]
    2. (temporal)hardly,merely,just,scarcely
      vix... cum...

    Derived terms

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    Descendants

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    • Old Navarro-Aragonese:veiza(Glosas Emilianenses)
    • Neapolitan:vi(Abruzzese)
    • Romansh:ves
    • ⇒ Aromanian:ayia
    • ⇒ Romanian:abia
    • ⇒ Old Leonese:abés
    • ⇒ Spanish:abés(archaic)

    References

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    1. ^De Vaan, Michiel (2008), “vix”, inEtymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill,→ISBN,page686

    Further reading

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    • “vix”, inCharlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879),A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
    • “vix”, inGaffiot, Félix (1934),Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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