vix

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Latin[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Proto-Italic *wiks sg (nom.), *wiksu pl (“a turn, bend”, loc.), from Proto-Indo-European *weyk-.^[1]

Pronunciation[edit]

(Classical) IPA^(key): /u̯iks/, [u̯ɪks̠]
(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /viks/, [viks]

Adverb[edit]

vix (not comparable)

with difficulty; scarcely, barely
hardly, merely, just (of time)

Descendants[edit]

Navarro-Aragonese: veiza (Glosas Emilianenses)
Neapolitan: vi (Abruzzese)
Romansch: ves
⇒ Aromanian: ayia
⇒ Romanian: abia
⇒ Spanish: abés (archaic)

References[edit]

Meyer-Lübke, Wilhelm (1911) chapter VIX, in Romanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), page 720

^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) chapter VIX, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 686

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