vitta

== English == === Etymology === Borrowed from Latin vitta. === Pronunciation === Rhymes: -ɪtə === Noun === vitta (plural vittae) A fillet, or garland for the head. (zoology) A longitudinal stripe. (botany) An oil tube in the fruit of some plants. === Anagrams === Ivatt == Latin == === Alternative forms === weta, witta (Medieval Latin) === Etymology === From Latin vieō (“to plait, weave”), perhaps via an earlier *vīta, a to-particle of vieō (< *uiH-to-). === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈwɪt.ta] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈvit.ta] === Noun === vitta f (genitive vittae); first declension band, ribbon Synonym: taenia fillet, headband, chaplet ==== Declension ==== First-declension noun. ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Descendants ==== === References === === Further reading === “vitta”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “vitta”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette. == Old Norse == === Noun === vitta genitive plural of vitt