vită

See also: Appendix:Variations of "vita"

Romanian

Alternative forms

Etymology

Inherited from Latin vīta (“life”), from Proto-Italic *gʷītā.

The change to the sense of “animal” perhaps occurred under Slavic influence; cf. Bulgarian животно (životno, “animal”) ⇄ живот (život, “life”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈvi.tə/
  • Audio:(file)

Noun

vită f (plural vite)

  1. (regional or archaic) animal
  2. cow, ox, beast, brute
  3. beef

Declension

singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative-accusative vită vita vite vitele
genitive-dative vite vitei vite vitelor
vocative vită, vito vitelor

See also

This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is available under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Additional terms may apply for the media files.