vīta

vīta

From Proto-Italic *gʷītā. Possibly corresponds to a derivative of Proto-Indo-European *gʷih₃wo-teh₂ (compare Ancient Greek βίοτος (bíotos, “life”), Old Irish bethu, bethad, Irish beatha, Welsh bywyd, Old Church Slavonic животъ (životŭ, “life”), Lithuanian gyvatà (“life”), Sanskrit जीवित(jīvitá), Avestan gayo (accusative ǰyātum) "life")), ultimately from *gʷeyh₃- (“to live”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈwiː.ta]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈviː.ta]

Noun

vīta f (genitive vītae); first declension

1. life

   Synonym: lūx

2. (by extension) living, support, subsistence
3. a way of life
4. real life (not fiction)
5. (figuratively) mankind, the living
6. (Medieval Latin) biography, life (particularly but not necessarily a hagiography)

Declension

First-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	vīta	vītae
genitive	vītae	vītārum
dative	vītae	vītīs
accusative	vītam	vītās
ablative	vītā	vītīs
vocative	vīta	vītae