vilis

== Latin == === Etymology === From Proto-Italic *weslis, from Proto-Indo-European *weslis, a deverbal adjective with passive meaning ("which can be bought"), from the root of venum (“sale”). === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈwiː.lɪs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈviː.lis] === Adjective === vīlis (neuter vīle, comparative vīlior, superlative vīlissimus); third-declension two-termination adjective cheap, inexpensive Antonyms: pretiōsus, cārus, impēnsus, dīves, antīquus vestīmentum aliquod ex vīlibus scrūtīs cōnsarcinātum ― some garment sewn of cheap scraps of cloth base, vile, mean, worthless, cheap, paltry Synonyms: inānis, miser ==== Declension ==== Third-declension two-termination adjective. ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Descendants ==== === References === “vilis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “vilis”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers “vilis”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette. Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎[1], London: Macmillan and Co. De Vaan, Michiel (2008), Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN