vitis

vitis

1. plural of vite

From Proto-Indo-European *wéh₁itis (“that which twines or bends, branch, switch”), from *weh₁y- (“to turn, wind, bend”). See Latin vieō and English withe.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈwiː.tis/, [ˈwiː.tɪs]

vītis f (genitive vītis); third declension

1. vine
   • c. 37 BCE – 30 BCE, Virgil, Georgicon 4.269:

     vel psithia passos de vite racemos

     […] or dried clusters of grapes from Psithian vine[s]

   • c. 160-220 CE, Tertullian, De Judicio Domini, 22

     quid faciat laetis ut vitis abaestuet uvis

     What makes a vine hang down richly with grapes

2. (historical) a vine staff, the baton or cane of a Roman centurion

Third-declension noun (i-stem).

Inflected form of vīta (“life”)

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈwiː.tiːs/

vītīs

1. dative plural of vīta
2. ablative plural of vīta

• vitis in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• vitis in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• vitis in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• vitis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• vitis in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly