vicus

== English == === Etymology === Borrowed from Latin vīcus (“village”). Doublet of wick. === Noun === vicus (plural vici) (historical) A small civilian settlement outside a Roman fort. == Latin == === Etymology === Inherited from Proto-Italic *weikos, from Proto-Indo-European *weyḱ- (“village”). Cognate of Ancient Greek οἶκος (oîkos, “house”), Sanskrit विश् (víś, “settlement; dwelling-space”), Gothic 𐍅𐌴𐌹𐌷𐍃 (weihs, “village; place”), Etruscan 𐌅𐌉𐌊𐌖 (viku). === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈwiː.kʊs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈviː.kus] === Noun === vīcus m (genitive vīcī); second declension row of houses; street; quarter; neighbourhood village; hamlet municipal section or ward; farm ==== Declension ==== Second-declension noun. ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Descendants ==== === References === Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976), “vicus”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: E. J. Brill, pages 1,097–1,100 Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002), “vīcus”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume 14: U–Z, page 420 === Further reading === “uīcus” on page 2,058 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82) “vīcus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “vicus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers "vicus", 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) “vīcus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette: “1,673/3” “vicus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers “vicus”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin