vicissitudo

Latin

Etymology

From vicis +‎ -tūdō. Compare vicissitas.

Noun

vicissitūdō f (genitive vicissitūdinis); third declension

1. change, interchange, alternation, vicissitude

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	vicissitūdō	vicissitūdinēs
Genitive	vicissitūdinis	vicissitūdinum
Dative	vicissitūdinī	vicissitūdinibus
Accusative	vicissitūdinem	vicissitūdinēs
Ablative	vicissitūdine	vicissitūdinibus
Vocative	vicissitūdō	vicissitūdinēs

Descendants

• Catalan: vicissitud
• English: vicissitude
• French: vicissitude
• Italian: vicissitudine
• Romanian: vicisitudine
• Spanish: vicisitud

References

• “vicissitudo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “vicissitudo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• vicissitudo 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)
• vicissitudo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • the succession of day and night: vicissitudines dierum noctiumque
    
  • the vicissitudes of fortune: fortunae vicissitudines