vita

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

vita (plural vitae or vitas or (archaic) vitæ)

1. A hagiography; a biography of a saint.
2. A curriculum vitae.

• IPA^(key): [ˈvɪta]

vita

1. inflection of vít:
   1. feminine singular passive participle
   2. neuter plural passive participle

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

vita (third person singular past indicative visti, third person plural past indicative vistu, supine vitað)

1. To know.

Conjugation of vita (irregular)
infinitive	vita
supine	vitað
participle	—	—
	present	past
first singular	veit	visti
second singular	veitst	visti
third singular	veit	visti
plural	vita	vistu
	imperative
singular	—
plural	—

• vitan
• vitigur
• vitlítil
• vitleysur

• vitja

Inflected form of viti

vita m

1. indefinite accusative singular of viti
2. indefinite dative singular of viti
3. indefinite genitive singular of viti
4. indefinite genitive plural of viti

Means "water slime" in dialects. Origin unknown.

• IPA^(key): /ˈʋitɑ/, [ˈʋit̪ɑ̝]
• Rhymes: -itɑ
• Hyphenation^(key): vi‧ta

vita

1. pondweed (an aquatic plant of the genus Potamogeton)

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

• 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)

• “vita”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[1] (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

• ivat, tavi, vati, viat

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈvita/^[1]

vita f (plural viti)

1. life

Back-formation from vitat.^[1]

• IPA^(key): [ˈvitɒ]

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: vi‧ta
• Rhymes: -tɒ

vita (plural viták)

1. debate, dispute, discussion

Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, back harmony)
	singular	plural
nominative	vita	viták
accusative	vitát	vitákat
dative	vitának	vitáknak
instrumental	vitával	vitákkal
causal-final	vitáért	vitákért
translative	vitává	vitákká
terminative	vitáig	vitákig
essive-formal	vitaként	vitákként
essive-modal	—	—
inessive	vitában	vitákban
superessive	vitán	vitákon
adessive	vitánál	vitáknál
illative	vitába	vitákba
sublative	vitára	vitákra
allative	vitához	vitákhoz
elative	vitából	vitákból
delative	vitáról	vitákról
ablative	vitától	vitáktól
non-attributive possessive - singular	vitáé	vitáké
non-attributive possessive - plural	vitáéi	vitákéi

Possessive forms of vita
possessor	single possession	multiple possessions
1st person sing.	vitám	vitáim
2nd person sing.	vitád	vitáid
3rd person sing.	vitája	vitái
1st person plural	vitánk	vitáink
2nd person plural	vitátok	vitáitok
3rd person plural	vitájuk	vitáik

• 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

• IPA^(key): /ˈvɪːta/
• Rhymes: -ɪːta

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

vita (preterite-present verb, third-person singular present indicative veit, third-person singular past indicative vissi, supine vitað)

1. 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.

2. to see, check

   Vittu nú hvort þú getir ekki lagað þetta fyrir mig.

   Now see if you can't fix that for me.

• 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.

• (archaic) vita á eitthvað (predicts)

  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.

vita

1. inflection of viti:
   1. indefinite accusative
   2. indefinite dative singular
   3. indefinite genitive

vita (plural vitas)

1. life

• vital

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈvi.ta/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -ita
• Hyphenation: vì‧ta

vita f (plural vite)

1. life
   • 1300s–1310s, Dante Alighieri, “Canto I”, in Inferno [Hell]‎^[2], lines 1–3; republished as Giorgio Petrocchi, editor, La Commedia secondo l'antica vulgata [The Commedia according to the ancient vulgate]‎^[3], 2^nd 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.

2. waist

• vati

From Latin vīta.

vita f (plural vites)

1. life

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”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈu̯iː.ta/, [ˈu̯iːt̪ä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈvi.ta/, [ˈviːt̪ä]

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

First-declension noun.

vītā

1. second-person singular present active imperative of vītō

• “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
• “vita”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• 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)

From Latin vita.

vita f (plural vite)

1. 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,

vita

1. finished, complete, completed
2. (figuratively) dead

vita

1. To finish, complete, do, accomplish.

	Focus (Voice)
Agent (Active)	man-form: mamita
	mi-form: --
	om-form: --
Patient (Passive)	vitaina
	alternate: --
	a-form: --
	voa-form: --
	tafa-form: --
Goal (Relative)	an-form: amitana
	i-form: --

• mahavita

Inherited from Latin vīta. Compare Italian vita.

• IPA^(key): /ˈvitə/

vita f (plural vite)

1. life

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

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

• IPA^(key): /²ʋɪ(ː)ta/
• Hyphenation: vì‧ta

vita (present tense veit, past tense visste, past participle visst, passive infinitive vitast, present participle vitande, imperative vit)

1. To know.

   Veit du kva dette er?

   Do you know what this is?

• allvitande

From Latin vita (“life”).

• IPA^(key): /¹ʋiːtɑ/

vita n (definite singular vitaet, indefinite plural vita, definite plural vitaa)

1. biography

   Synonym: biografi

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

• IPA^(key): /¹ʋiːtɑ/

vita n

1. definite plural of vit

• “vita” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

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 wizzan, Gothic 𐍅𐌹𐍄𐌰𐌽 (witan).

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

1. to know

• ᚠᛁᛏᛆ (Runic)

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

vita

1. To know.

• Swedish: veta

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

vīta

1. To prove.
2. To accuse.

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

vita f (plural vite)

1. life

From Latin vīta.

vita f (plural vitas)

1. (Rumantsch Grischun, Puter, Vallader) life

• veta (Sursilvan, Sutsilvan, Surmiran)

Related to Etymology 1 above, similar to Italian vita.

vita f (plural vitas)

1. (anatomy, Rumantsch Grischun, Vallader) waist

• veta (Sursilvan, Sutsilvan, Surmiran)

• taglia (Rumantsch Grischun, Surmiran, Puter)

vita (Cyrillic spelling вита)

1. inflection of viti:
   1. feminine singular passive past participle
   2. neuter plural passive past participle

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vita

1. plural of kita: war

• 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”)

vita

1. inflection of vit:
   1. definite singular
   2. plural

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

vita

1. To call.