vicissim

Latin

Etymology

The first part is from vic-, vicis (“alternation, turn”) and the final part is from the adverb-forming suffix -tim (etymologically the adverbial accusative of the i-stem abstract noun suffix *-tis), but the details of its formation are unclear. The -ss- would be expected to go back to original *-t-t- or *-d-t-, hence pre-forms such as *vici-dtim (a compound with the root of dō, dare, dedī, datum) or *vici-cessim (a compound with the root of cēdō, cēdere, cessī, cessum) have been proposed.[1] Compare anteclassical vicissātim.

Pronunciation

Adverb

vicissim (not comparable)

  1. in turn, back, again
    • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 6.531:
      Sed, tē quī vīvum cāsūs, age fāre vicissim,
      attulerint.
      But answer you; and in your turn relate, what brought you living still.

References

  1. ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008), “vicis”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 674-675

Further reading

  • “vicissim”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “vicissim”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • “vicissim”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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