victus

== Latin == === Etymology 1 === From vīvō + -tus (forming action nouns). ==== Pronunciation ==== (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈwiːk.tʊs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈvik.tus] ==== Noun ==== vīctus m (genitive vīctūs); fourth declension living, way of life, lifestyle c. 30 BCE, Cicero, Dē Lēgibus 3.14.32: Ego autem nōbilium vītā vīctūque mūtātō mōrēs mūtārī cīvitātum putō. But I consider that the way of life of cities can be changed by changing the life and living of the noble. nourishment, provision, diet, that which sustains life Synonyms: nūtrīmentum, pābulum, alimentum (Late Latin, law) necessaries of life CE 530 – CE 533, Justinian I, Dīgesta seu Pandectae 50.16.43–44: Verbō vīctus continentur, quae ēsuī pōtuīque cultuīque corporis quaeque ad vīvendum hominī necessāria sunt. Vestem quoque vīctūs habēre vicem Labeō ait.Et cētera, quibus tuendī cūrandīve corporis nostrī grātiā ūtimur, eā appellātiōne sīgnificantur. By the word vīctus is meant that which is necessary for the feeding and hydration and care of the body and for the life of a human. Labeo includes clothing under this term.And the other things which we use for keeping and caring for our bodies are meant by that term. ===== Usage notes ===== As seen above in the first quotation, this word is often alliteratively in apposition with vīta. ===== Declension ===== Fourth-declension noun. ===== Related terms ===== convīctus vīctum vīctuālis ===== Descendants ===== Aromanian: yiptu, viptu, ghiptu, yipt Romanian: vipt → Italian: vitto → Spanish: victo → Polish: wikt === Etymology 2 === Perfect passive participle of vincō (“conquer”). ==== Pronunciation ==== (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈwɪk.tʊs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈvik.tus] ==== Participle ==== victus (feminine victa, neuter victum); first/second-declension participle conquered, vanquished, subdued, defeated, having been conquered, vanquished, etc. ===== Declension ===== First/second-declension adjective. ===== Antonyms ===== invictus ===== Descendants ===== Aromanian: azvimtu Italian: vitto, vinto Sardinian: bintu === References === “victus¹”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “victus²”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “vīctus¹”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers “vīctus²”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers “victus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette. "victus", 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) Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎[1], London: Macmillan and Co. “victus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers