vicinus

vīcus (“town, street, quarter”) +‎ -īnus (“pertaining to”)

Compare typologically Lithuanian kaimynas (< kaimas).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [wiːˈkiː.nʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [viˈt͡ʃiː.nus]

vīcīnus (feminine vīcīna, neuter vīcīnum, comparative vīcīnior, adverb vīcīnē); first/second-declension adjective

1. (chiefly poetic) near, neighboring

   Synonyms: propinquus, contiguus, fīnitimus, proximus

   Antonyms: longinquus, remōtus

2. like, similar, kindred

First/second-declension adjective.

vīcīnus m (genitive vīcīnī); second declension

1. neighbour/neighbor
   • 106 BCE – 43 BCE, Cicero, Cato Maior de Senectute 14.46:

     Quae quidem etiam in Sabīnīs persequī soleō, convīviumque vīcīnōrum cotīdiē compleō, quod ad multam noctem quam maximē possumus variō sermōne prōdūcimus.

     Indeed, even in the Sabine [country] I am accustomed to follow [these practices], and I entertain gatherings of [my] neighbors daily, which we prolong with varied conversation until late at night, as much as possible.

Second-declension noun.

• Late Latin: vēcīnus (see there for further descendants)
• Sardinian: bichinu, vichinu (Nuorese), bixinu (Campidanese), bighinu, vighinu (Logudorese)

• vīcīna

• “vicinus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “vicinus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "vicinus", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “vicinus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.