vetus

== Etruscan == === Romanization === vetus romanization of 𐌅𐌄𐌕𐌖𐌔 == Latin == === Alternative forms === vet. (abbreviation) === Etymology === From Proto-Italic *wetos (“year”), from Proto-Indo-European *wétos (“year”) with a semantic shift of year > having accumulated (many) years > aged, old, with the Latin term for year being annus, from a different root. Cognates include Sanskrit वत्स (vatsá, “year; calf”), Ancient Greek ἔτος (étos), Albanian vjet, Gothic 𐍅𐌹𐌸𐍂𐌿𐍃 (wiþrus, “one-year-old lamb”), Old Church Slavonic ветъхъ (vetŭxŭ, “old, aged, ancient”), Russian ве́тхий (vétxij, “old, aged”), Lithuanian vẽtušas and Proto-Celtic *wetsis (Middle Irish feis, Cornish gwis, both “sow that has already given birth” < “from last year”), Etruscan 𐌅𐌄𐌕𐌖𐌔 (vetus). === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈwɛ.tʊs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈvɛː.tus] === Adjective === vetus (genitive veteris, comparative vetustior or veterior, superlative vetustissimus or veterrimus); third-declension one-termination adjective (non-i-stem) old, aged, elderly, ancient Synonyms: prīscus, prīstinus, senex, antīquus, longinquus, vetustus Antonyms: novus, recēns long-standing former, previous ==== Declension ==== Third-declension one-termination adjective (non-i-stem). ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Related terms ==== vetula ==== Descendants ==== === References === === Further reading === “vetus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “vetus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers "vetus", 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) “vetus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette. Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎[1], London: Macmillan and Co. “vetus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers “vetus”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray Meyer-Lübke, Wilhelm (1911), “vĕtus”, in Romanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), page 709 Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc. Latin and the development of the Romance languages: The postclassical period, Vulgar Latin, 2007.[2]