vitalis
See also: Vitalis
Latin
Etymology
From vīta (“life”) + -ālis.
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /u̯iːˈtaː.lis/, [u̯iːˈt̪äːlʲɪs̠]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /viˈta.lis/, [viˈt̪äːlis]
Adjective
vītālis (neuter vītāle); third-declension two-termination adjective
- of or pertaining to life; vital, life-giving
- Synonym: animālis
Declension
Third-declension two-termination adjective.
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masc./Fem. | Neuter | Masc./Fem. | Neuter | |
| Nominative | vītālis | vītāle | vītālēs | vītālia | |
| Genitive | vītālis | vītālium | |||
| Dative | vītālī | vītālibus | |||
| Accusative | vītālem | vītāle | vītālēs vītālīs | vītālia | |
| Ablative | vītālī | vītālibus | |||
| Vocative | vītālis | vītāle | vītālēs | vītālia | |
Derived terms
- vitālia
Descendants
- Asturian: vital, vidaya
- Catalan: vital
- English: vital
- French: vital
- Galician: vital, vidalla
- German: vital
- Italian: vitale
- Portuguese: vital
- Romanian: vital
- Spanish: vital
References
- “vitalis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “vitalis”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- vitalis 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)
- vitalis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
- “vitalis”, in William Smith, editor (1848) A Dictionary of Greek Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray