vicis

== Catalan == === Pronunciation === IPA(key): (Northern, Central, Northwestern) [ˈbi.sis] IPA(key): (Balearic, Valencia) [ˈvi.sis] Homophone: bicis (Central) === Noun === vicis plural of vici == Latin == === Etymology 1 === From Proto-Indo-European *weyk- (“to curve, bend”). Cognate with vinciō, Ancient Greek εἴκω (eíkō), English week, German Wechsel (“change”), Northern Sami viker (“willow twig, wand”), Old Norse vikja (“to bend, turn”), Old English wician (“to yield, give way”), wice (“wych elm”), Sanskrit विष्टी (viṣṭī, “changeable, changing”). ==== Pronunciation ==== (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈwɪ.kɪs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈviː.t͡ʃis] ==== Noun ==== vicis f (genitive vicis); third declension change; alternation; interchange in vicem ― mutually; reciprocally time; instance (by extension) season succession condition; lot the position, room, place, stead, post, office or duty of one person assumed by another ===== Declension ===== Third-declension noun. ===== Derived terms ===== ===== Descendants ===== See vice for further descendants. === Etymology 2 === See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form. ==== Pronunciation ==== (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈwiː.kiːs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈviː.t͡ʃis] ==== Noun ==== vīcīs dative/ablative plural of vīcus (“row of houses; street; village”) === References === === Further reading === “vicis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “vicis”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers “vicis”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette. Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎[1], London: Macmillan and Co. Pokorny, Julius (1959), Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 3, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 1130 Dizionario Latino, Olivetti