vectis

== English == === Etymology === Naturalized into medical English and ISV from Latin vectis. === Noun === vectis (plural vectes) (surgery, medicine) Any of various surgical instruments with prying functions. == Latin == === Etymology === From Proto-Italic *wektis, from Proto-Indo-European *wéǵʰ-tis, from the root *weǵʰ- (“to ride”). Cognate with vehō, Sanskrit ऊढि (ūḍhi). === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈwɛk.tɪs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈvɛk.tis] === Noun === vectis m (genitive vectis); third declension a strong pole or bar used for leverage; lever; crowbar; handspike a carrying-pole a bar or bolt (for fastening a door) ==== Declension ==== Third-declension noun (i-stem, ablative singular in -e or -ī). ==== Derived terms ==== vectiārius vecticulus m ==== Descendants ==== Catalan: vit m Italian: vette m Old French: vit mFrench: vit m Sardinian: bette m ⇒ Vulgar Latin: *vecticulus m Fala: bitillu, betillu Galician: vetillo, bitillo === References === “vectis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “vectis”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers "vectis", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887) “vectis”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette. “vectis”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers De Vaan, Michiel (2008), “vehō, -ere”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 658