# vita
## English
### Etymology

From Latin vīta (“life”). Doublet of quick and jiva.

### Noun

vita (plural vitae or vitas or (archaic) vitæ)
* A hagiography; a biography of a saint.
* A curriculum vitae.

### See also

* la dolce vita

## Czech
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈvɪta]

### Participle

vita
* inflection of vít:
** feminine singular passive participle
** neuter plural passive participle

## Dutch
### Alternative forms

* Vita

### Etymology

Learned borrowing from Medieval Latin vīta.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈvi.taː/
* Homophone: Vita

### Noun

vita f (plural vitae)
* (literature) vita (hagiography)
    Synonyms: heiligenleven, hagiografie
    Hypernyms: biografie, levensbeschrijving, leven
    Zijn vertaling van deze vita is onbetrouwbaar. ― His translation of this vita is unreliable.
    De eerste vita over haar leven werd in de achtste eeuw geschreven. ― The first vita concerning her life was written in the eighth century.

#### Usage notes

* When encountered in capitalized form (Vita), if not simply the female given name, the word is generally an abbreviated proper noun referring to a specific hagiography. Nonetheless, the common noun plural Vitae (e.g. "deze Vitae zijn [...]") is attested.

#### Related terms

* vitaal

## Faroese
### Etymology 1

From Old Norse vita, from Proto-Germanic *witaną, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *weyd- (“see”).

#### Verb

vita (third person singular past indicative visti, third person plural past indicative vistu, supine vitað)
* To know.

##### Related terms

* vitan
* vitigur
* vitlítil
* vitleysur

#### See also

* vitja

### Etymology 2

Inflected form of viti

#### Noun

vita m
* indefinite accusative singular of viti
* indefinite dative singular of viti
* indefinite genitive singular of viti
* indefinite genitive plural of viti

## Finnish
### Etymology

Means "water slime" in dialects. Origin unknown.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈʋitɑ/, [ˈʋit̪ɑ̝]
* Rhymes: -itɑ
* Hyphenation: vi‧ta

### Noun

vita
* pondweed (an aquatic plant of the genus Potamogeton)

#### Declension

Possessive forms of vita (Kotus type 9*F/kala, t-d gradation) :
first-person singular possessor
singular
plural
nominative
vitani
vitani
accusative
nom.
vitani
vitani
gen.
vitani
genitive
vitani
vitojeni vitaini $^{rare}$
partitive
vitaani
vitojani
inessive
vidassani
vidoissani
elative
vidastani
vidoistani
illative
vitaani
vitoihini
adessive
vidallani
vidoillani
ablative
vidaltani
vidoiltani
allative
vidalleni
vidoilleni
essive
vitanani
vitoinani
translative
vidakseni
vidoikseni
abessive
vidattani
vidoittani
instructive
comitative
—vitoineni
second-person singular possessor
singular
plural
nominative
vitasi
vitasi
accusative
nom.
vitasi
vitasi
gen.
vitasi
genitive
vitasi
vitojesi vitaisi $^{rare}$
partitive
vitaasi
vitojasi
inessive
vidassasi
vidoissasi
elative
vidastasi
vidoistasi
illative
vitaasi
vitoihisi
adessive
vidallasi
vidoillasi
ablative
vidaltasi
vidoiltasi
allative
vidallesi
vidoillesi
essive
vitanasi
vitoinasi
translative
vidaksesi
vidoiksesi
abessive
vidattasi
vidoittasi
instructive
comitative
—vitoinesi
first-person plural possessor
singular
plural
nominative
vitamme
vitamme
accusative
nom.
vitamme
vitamme
gen.
vitamme
genitive
vitamme
vitojemme vitaimme $^{rare}$
partitive
vitaamme
vitojamme
inessive
vidassamme
vidoissamme
elative
vidastamme
vidoistamme
illative
vitaamme
vitoihimme
adessive
vidallamme
vidoillamme
ablative
vidaltamme
vidoiltamme
allative
vidallemme
vidoillemme
essive
vitanamme
vitoinamme
translative
vidaksemme
vidoiksemme
abessive
vidattamme
vidoittamme
instructive
comitative
—vitoinemme
second-person plural possessor
singular
plural
nominative
vitanne
vitanne
accusative
nom.
vitanne
vitanne
gen.
vitanne
genitive
vitanne
vitojenne vitainne $^{rare}$
partitive
vitaanne
vitojanne
inessive
vidassanne
vidoissanne
elative
vidastanne
vidoistanne
illative
vitaanne
vitoihinne
adessive
vidallanne
vidoillanne
ablative
vidaltanne
vidoiltanne
allative
vidallenne
vidoillenne
essive
vitananne
vitoinanne
translative
vidaksenne
vidoiksenne
abessive
vidattanne
vidoittanne
instructive
comitative
—vitoinenne
third-person possessor
singular
plural
nominative
vitansa
vitansa
accusative
nom.
vitansa
vitansa
gen.
vitansa
genitive
vitansa
vitojensa vitainsa $^{rare}$
partitive
vitaansa
vitojaan vitojansa
inessive
vidassaan vidassansa
vidoissaan vidoissansa
elative
vidastaan vidastansa
vidoistaan vidoistansa
illative
vitaansa
vitoihinsa
adessive
vidallaan vidallansa
vidoillaan vidoillansa
ablative
vidaltaan vidaltansa
vidoiltaan vidoiltansa
allative
vidalleen vidallensa
vidoilleen vidoillensa
essive
vitanaan vitanansa
vitoinaan vitoinansa
translative
vidakseen vidaksensa
vidoikseen vidoiksensa
abessive
vidattaan vidattansa
vidoittaan vidoittansa
instructive
comitative
—vitoineen vitoinensa :

#### Hypernyms

* uposkasvi (an underwater plant)
* vitakasvi (a plant of the family Potamogetonaceae)

#### Hyponyms

* ahvenvita (Potamogeton perfoliatus)
* hapsivita (Potamogeton pectinatus)
* heinävita (Potamogeton gramineus)
* hentovita (Potamogeton pusillus)
* jouhivita (Potamogeton rutilus)
* kyhmyvita (Potamogeton trichoides)
* litteävita (Potamogeton compressus)
* lähdevita (Potamogeton coloratus)
* merivita (Potamogeton filiformis)
* nauhavita (Potamogeton x sparganiifolius)
* otalehtivita (Potamogeton friesii)
* pikkuvita (Potamogeton berchtoldii)
* pitkälehtivita (Potamogeton praelongus)
* poimuvita (Potamogeton crispus)
* purovita (Potamogeton alpinus)
* soikkovita (Potamogeton nodosus)
* suippuvita (Potamogeton acutifolius)
* tatarvita (Potamogeton polygonifolius)
* tuppivita (Potamogeton vaginatus)
* tylppälehtivita (Potamogeton obtusifolius)
* uistinvita (Potamogeton natans)
* vaskivita (Potamogeton x angustifolius)
* välkevita (Potamogeton lucens)

#### Derived terms

* ahvenvita
* vitakasvi

### Further reading

* “vita”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎ (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-04

### Anagrams

* ivat, tavi, vati, viat

## Gallurese
### Etymology

From Classical Latin vīta, from Proto-Italic *gʷītā, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *gʷeyh₃- (“to live”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈvita/

### Noun

vita f (plural viti)
* life

### References

* ↑ Mauro Maxia (2012) Fonetica storica del gallurese e delle altre varietà sardocorse (in Gallurese), Editrice Taphros, →ISBN

## Hungarian
### Etymology

Back-formation from vitat.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈvitɒ]
* Audio:(file)
* Hyphenation: vi‧ta
* Rhymes: -tɒ

### Noun

vita (plural viták)
* debate, dispute, discussion

#### Derived terms

* vitás
* vitázik

### References

* ↑ Eőry, Vilma. Értelmező szótár+ (“Explanatory Dictionary Plus”). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2007. →ISBN

### Further reading

* vita in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (“The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language”, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN

## Icelandic
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈvɪːta/
* Rhymes: -ɪːta

### Etymology 1

From Old Norse vita, from Proto-Germanic *witaną, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *weyd- (“see”).

#### Verb

vita (preterite-present verb, third-person singular present indicative veit, third-person singular past indicative vissi, supine vitað)
* to know (information), know of something
    Að heyra barn hlæja er það fallegasta sem ég veit.To hear a child laughing is the most beautiful thing I know.
    Vissir þú að við lentum aldrei á tunglinu í alvörunni? Það var allt feik.Did you know we never really landed on the moon? It was all fake.
* to see, check
    Vittu nú hvort þú getir ekki lagað þetta fyrir mig.Now see if you can't fix that for me.

##### Derived terms

* þúst
* eins og alþjóð veit
* eitt mátt þú vita
* vita vel/vita fyrir víst/vita með vissu/vita fyrir satt (“to be sure”)
    Hann er svindlari og ég veit þetta fyrir víst.
* það er ekki að vita/það er aldrei að vita (“you never know”)
    Það er aldrei að vita hvenær næsta tækifæri býðst.
* láta [einhvern] vita (“to let [someone] know”)
    Látið mig vita ef ykkur vantar eitthvað.
* það má guð vita/það má hamingjan vita/það má fjandinn vita/það má Óðinn vita (“God knows”)
* Hvernig förum við að því að borga þetta? Það má fjandinn vita.
* vita um eitthvað/ vita um einhvern (“to know about something/someone”)
    Ég veit ekkert um þetta mál.
* vita af einhverju (know about something)
* vita af sér (“to be pleased with one self”)
    Hann er laglegur og veit af sér.
* vita á eitthvað (“predicts”) (archaic)
    Þessi draumur veit á illt.
* vita til einhvers (“to know something. bad/good:”)
    Það er hörmulegt að vita til þess að það skuli ekki vera hægt að lækna þetta
* vita ekki haus né sporð á einhverju (“know nothing about something”)
    Veistu hverskonar maður hann er?- Nei, ég veit ekki haus né sporð á honum.

### Etymology 2
#### Noun

vita
* inflection of viti:
** indefinite accusative
** indefinite dative singular
** indefinite genitive

## Interlingua
### Noun

vita (plural vitas)
* life

#### Related terms

* vital

## Italian
### Etymology

From Latin vīta, from Proto-Italic *gʷītā, possibly a derivative of Proto-Indo-European *gʷih₃wo-teh₂, from the root *gʷeyh₃- (“to live”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈvi.ta/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -ita
* Hyphenation: vì‧ta

### Noun

vita f (plural vite)
* life
** 1300s–1310s, Dante Alighieri, “Canto I”, in Inferno [Hell]‎, lines 1–3; republished as Giorgio Petrocchi, editor, La Commedia secondo l'antica vulgata [The Commedia according to the ancient vulgate]‎, 2nd revised edition, Florence: publ. Le Lettere, 1994:Nel mezzo del cammin di nostra vita mi ritrovai per una selva oscura, ché la diritta via era smarrita.Halfway through the journey of our life, I found myself inside a dark forest, for the straightforward path was lost.
* waist

#### Related terms

* a vita
* carovita
* ciclo di vita
* girovita
* in vita
* salvavita
* vitale
* vitalità
* vivere
* vivo

### Anagrams

* vati

## Ladin
### Etymology

From Latin vīta.

### Noun

vita f (plural vites)
* life

## Latin
### Etymology

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: /ˈu̯iː.ta/, [ˈu̯iːt̪ä]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈvi.ta/, [ˈviːt̪ä]

### Noun

vīta f (genitive vītae); first declension
* life
    Synonym: lūx
* (by extension) living, support, subsistence
* a way of life
* real life, not fiction
* (figuratively) mankind, the living
* (Medieval Latin) biography, life (particularly but not necessarily a hagiography)

#### Declension

First-declension noun.

#### Derived terms

* auctor vītae
* vītālia
* vītālis
* vītālitās
* vītāliter
* Vitumnus

#### Related terms

* vītābilis
* vītātiō
* vīvārium
* vīvāx
* vīvidus
* vīvō
* vīvus

#### Descendants

* Balkan-Romance:
** Megleno-Romanian: vítă
** Romanian: vită
* Dalmato-Romance:
** Dalmatian: vaita
** Istriot: veîta
* Italo-Romance:
** Corsican: vita
** Italian: vita
*** → Emilian: vétta
*** → Friulian: vite
*** → Lombard: vita
*** → Ladin: vita
*** → Piedmontese: vita
*** → Romagnol: vita
*** → Romansch: vita
*** → Sabir: vita
*** → Venetan: vita
** Neapolitan: vita, bita
** Sicilian: vita
* Insular Romance:
** Sardinian: vida
* North-Italian:
** Piedmontese: via, visa
* Gallo-Romance:
** Navarro-Aragonese: vida
*** Aragonese: vida, vita
** Catalan: vida
** Gascon: vita, vida, via
** Franco-Provençal: via
** Old French: vie
*** Middle French: vie
**** French: vie
***** Antillean Creole: vi
***** Guianese Creole: lavi
***** Haitian Creole: lavi
***** Louisiana Creole: vi
***** Seychellois Creole: lavi
**** Norman: vie (Guernésiais)
*** Walloon: veye, vèie
** Occitan: vida
* Ibero-Romance:
** Old Leonese: vida
*** Asturian: vida, vía
*** Extremaduran: vía
*** Leonese: vida
*** Mirandese: bida
** Old Galician-Portuguese: vida
*** Fala: vía
*** Galician: vida
*** Portuguese: vida
**** → Shona: vida, bida, vira, vita
** Old Spanish: vida
*** Ladino: vida
*** Spanish: vida
**** Palenquero: bila
**** Papiamentu: bida
* Borrowing:
** → Dutch: vita (learned)
** → English: vita, → life (semantic loan) (learned)
** Dutch: → vita (learned), → leven (semantic loan)
** → Interlingua: vita (learned)

### Verb

vītā
* second-person singular present active imperative of vītō

### References

* “vita”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* “vita”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
* Zoëga, Geir T. (1910) “vita”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press; also available at the Internet Archive
* "vita", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)

## Lombard
### Etymology

From Latin vita.

### Noun

vita f (plural vite)
* life
** 1274, Bonvesin de la Riva, Libro de Tre Scrigiure:Dra nassion da l’omo, dra vita e dra morte,From the tribe of the people, from the life and of the death,

## Malagasy
### Adjective

vita
* finished, complete, completed
* (figuratively) dead

### Verb

vita
* To finish, complete, do, accomplish.

#### Related terms
### See also

* mahavita

## Mwani
### Noun

vita
* war

## Neapolitan
### Etymology

Inherited from Latin vīta. Compare Italian vita.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈvitə/

### Noun

vita f (plural vite)
* life

## Norwegian Nynorsk
### Etymology 1

From Old Norse vita, from Proto-Germanic *witaną, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *weyd- (“see”).

#### Alternative forms

* vete, vite (e infinitives)
* veta (a infinitive)
* væta, vætæ, vata, våtå, vytå, vøtå, voto, veita, vessta (dialectal)

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /²ʋɪ(ː)ta/
* Hyphenation: vì‧ta

#### Verb

vita (present tense veit, past tense visste, past participle visst, passive infinitive vitast, present participle vitande, imperative vit)
* To know.
    Veit du kva dette er?Do you know what this is?

##### Derived terms

* allvitande

### Etymology 2

From Latin vita (“life”).

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /¹ʋiːtɑ/

#### Noun

vita n (definite singular vitaet, indefinite plural vita, definite plural vitaa)
* biography
    Synonym: biografi

### Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /¹ʋiːtɑ/

#### Noun

vita n
* definite plural of vit

### References

* “vita” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

## Old Norse
### Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *witaną (“to know”), from Proto-Indo-European *wóyde (“to have seen, know”), originally a perfect form of *weyd- (“to see”).
Cognate with Old English witan, Old Frisian wita, Old Saxon witan, Old Dutch witan, Old High German wiȥȥan, Gothic 𐍅𐌹𐍄𐌰𐌽 (witan).

### Verb

vita (singular past indicative vissi, plural past indicative vissu, past participle vitaðr)
* to know

#### Descendants

* Icelandic: vita
* Faroese: vita
* Norwegian Nynorsk: vita, veta (dialectal) væta, vætæ, vata, våtå, vytå, vøtå, voto, veita, vessta
* Elfdalian: witå
* Old Swedish: vita, ᚠᛁᛏᛆ (Runic)
** Swedish: veta
* Old Danish: witæ
** Danish: vide
*** Norwegian Bokmål: vite
** Scanian: veda
* Gutnish: vite

## Old Swedish
### Alternative forms

* ᚠᛁᛏᛆ (Runic)

### Etymology 1

From Old Norse vita, from Proto-Germanic *witaną.

#### Verb

vita
* To know.

##### Descendants

* Swedish: veta

### Etymology 2

From Old Norse víta, from Proto-Germanic *wītaną.

#### Verb

vīta
* To prove.
* To accuse.

##### Conjugation
## Piedmontese
### Etymology

From Latin vīta, from Proto-Italic *gʷītā, possibly a derivative of Proto-Indo-European *gʷih₃wo-teh₂, from the root *gʷeyh₃- (“to live”).

### Noun

vita f (plural vite)
* life

## Romansch
### Etymology 1

From Latin vīta.

#### Noun

vita f (plural vitas)
* (Rumantsch Grischun, Puter, Vallader) life

##### Alternative forms

* veta (Sursilvan, Sutsilvan, Surmiran)

### Etymology 2

Related to Etymology 1 above, similar to Italian vita.

#### Noun

vita f (plural vitas)
* (anatomy, Rumantsch Grischun, Vallader) waist

##### Alternative forms

* veta (Sursilvan, Sutsilvan, Surmiran)

##### Synonyms

* taglia (Rumantsch Grischun, Surmiran, Puter)

## Serbo-Croatian
### Participle

vita (Cyrillic spelling вита)
* inflection of viti:
** feminine singular passive past participle
** neuter plural passive past participle

## Swahili
### Pronunciation

* Audio (Kenya):(file)

### Noun

vita
* plural of kita
vita class VIII (plural vita class VIII)
* war

#### Derived terms

* vita baridi (“cold war”)
* vita vya msituni (“guerrilla war”)
* vita vya wenyewe kwa wenyewe (“civil war”)
* Vita Kuu ya Kwanza ya Dunia (“World War I”)
* Vita Kuu ya Pili ya Dunia (“World War II”)

## Swedish
### Adjective

vita
* inflection of vit:
** definite singular
** plural

## Tsonga
### Etymology

From Proto-Bantu *-bɪ́dia, causative form of Proto-Bantu *-bɪ́da.

### Verb

vita
* To call.