different between vices vs vicus

English

Pronunciation

Noun

vices

1. plural of vice

Anagrams

• ICEVs, cives

French

Noun

vices

1. plural of vice

Latin

Noun

vic?s

1. nominative plural of vicis
2. accusative plural of vicis

References

• vices in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• vices in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• vices in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

Middle English

Noun

vices

1. plural of vice

English

Etymology

From Latin v?cus (“village”). Doublet of wick.

Noun

vicus (plural vici)

1. (historical) A small civilian settlement outside a Roman fort.
   • 2011, Brenda Longfellow, Roman Imperialism and Civic Patronage

     The compital shrines stood at primary crossroads in the vici and received sacrifices during the annual Compitalia Festival.

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *weikos, from Proto-Indo-European *wey?- (“village”). Cognate of Ancient Greek ????? (oîkos, “house”), Sanskrit ???? (ví?, “settlement, dwelling-space”) and Gothic ???????????????????? (weihs, “village, place”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?u?i?.kus/, [?u?i?k?s?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?vi.kus/, [?vi?kus]

Noun

v?cus m (genitive v?c?); second declension

1. street; quarter, neighbourhood; row of houses
2. village; hamlet
3. municipal section or ward, farm

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Derived terms

Descendants

• ? English: vicus, vicinal, vicinity
• ? Breton: gwig
• Catalan: Vic
• ? Cornish: gwig
• Galician: Vigo
• Italian: vico
• Portuguese: vico
• Romansch: vitg
• Spanish: vigo, vico
• ? Welsh: gwig
• ? Germanic: *w?k? (see there for further descendants)

References

• v?cus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• vicus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• vicus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• v?cus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette: “1,673/3”
• vicus in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• vicus in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
• “u?cus” on page 2,058 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)
• Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976) , “vicus”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: Brill, pages 1,097–1,100