vicinitas

Latin

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *weyḱ-

Proto-Indo-European *weyḱós

Proto-Italic *weikos

Latin vīcus

Proto-Indo-European *-nós

Proto-Indo-European *-iHnos

Proto-Italic *-īnos

Latin -īnus

Latin vīcīnus

Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂

Proto-Indo-European *-ts

Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ts

Proto-Italic *-tāts

Latin -tās

Latin vīcīnitās

From vīcīnus (“near, neighboring”) + -tās.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [wiːˈkiː.nɪ.taːs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [viˈt͡ʃiː.ni.tas]

Noun

vīcīnitās f (genitive vīcīnitātis); third declension

1. neighborhood
2. nearness, proximity, vicinity

   Synonyms: propinquitās, contiguitās, adfīnitās

   Antonym: longinquitās

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	vīcīnitās	vīcīnitātēs
genitive	vīcīnitātis	vīcīnitātum
dative	vīcīnitātī	vīcīnitātibus
accusative	vīcīnitātem	vīcīnitātēs
ablative	vīcīnitāte	vīcīnitātibus
vocative	vīcīnitās	vīcīnitātēs

Related terms

• vīcīna
• vīcīnālis
• vīcīnē
• vīcīnia
• vīcīnor
• vīcīnum
• vīcīnus
• vīcus

Descendants

• Balkan Romance:
  • Aromanian: vitsinãtati, vitsinãtate
  • Romanian: vecinătate
• Italo-Romance:
  • Italian: vicinità
• Ibero-Romance:
  • Aragonese: vezindat
  • Asturian: vecindá, vicindá
  • Old Galician-Portuguese: vezindade (rare, possibly borrowed from Spanish)
    • Portuguese: vizindade (rare)
  • Old Spanish: vezindat, vezindad
    • Ladino: vizindado
    • Spanish: vecindad
• Borrowings:
  • → English: vicinity
  • → Middle French: vicinité
    • French: vicinité
  • → Old Occitan: vicinitat

References

• “vicinitas”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “vicinitas”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “vicinitas”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.