vidua

See also: Vidua and vídua

Latin

Etymology

    From Proto-Italic *wiðowā, Proto-Indo-European *h₁widʰéwh₂. Cognates include Sanskrit विधवा (vidhávā), Ancient Greek ἠΐθεος (ēḯtheos), Proto-Slavic *vьdova and Old English widuwe (English widow).[1]

    Pronunciation

    Noun

    vidua f (genitive viduae); first declension

    1. widow, divorced woman
    2. (Christianity) widow

    Usage notes

    • Married woman was nupta, one with no history of marriage was virgō. Vidua referred to a woman who had been married, but lost her spouse, but not necessarily to death; further she could remarry and be both vidua and nupta. In that sense virgō meant one never before married and vidua one previously married.

    Declension

    First-declension noun.

    singular plural
    nominative vidua viduae
    genitive viduae viduārum
    dative viduae viduīs
    accusative viduam viduās
    ablative viduā viduīs
    vocative vidua viduae

    Descendants

    • Balkan Romance:
      • Aromanian: veduã
      • Romanian: văduvă
    • Istriot: viduva
    • Italo-Romance:
      • Italian: vedova
        • → Piedmontese: vidoa
      • Judeo-Italian: וֵידוּוַה (weduwah /⁠veduva⁠/)
      • Sicilian: vìduva, vìdua
    • North-Italian:
    • Gallo-Romance:
      • Franco-Provençal: veva
      • Gascon: veuda
      • Old Catalan: viuva
      • Old French: veve, vauve, vedve
      • Old Occitan: vezoa, veuva, veva
        • Occitan: veusa
          • Auvergnat: vueva
          • Limousin: veuva
    • Ibero-Romance:
    • Sardinian: fiuda

    Adjective

    vidua

    1. inflection of viduus:
      1. nominative/vocative feminine singular
      2. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter plural

    Adjective

    viduā

    1. ablative feminine singular of viduus

    References

    1. ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008), “viduus (> Derivatives > vidua)”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 676-7

    Further reading

    • “vidua”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
    • “vidua”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
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