English

Noun

vicus ‎(plural vici)

1. a small civilian settlement outside a Roman fort

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *wéyḱs ‎(“village”)

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈwiː.kus/

Noun

vīcus m ‎(genitive vīcī); second declension

1. street; quarter, neighbourhood; row of houses
2. village; hamlet
3. municipal section or ward,farm

Declension

Second declension.

Derived terms

Descendants

• English: vicus, vicinal, vicinity
• Catalan: Vic
• Galician: Vigo
• Germanic: *wīk-
  • Old Dutch: *wīk
    • Dutch: wijk
  • Old English: wic
    • English: wick, -wich
  • Old Frisian: wīk
  • Old High German: wīh
  • Old Saxon: wīk
    • Middle Low German: wîk
• Italian: vico
• Portuguese: vico
• Romansh: vitg

References

• vīcus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• vicus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• VICUS in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “vīcus”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette, page 1,673/3.
• vicus in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• vicus in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
• “uīcus” on page 2,058 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)
• “vicus” on pages 1,097–1,100 of Jan Frederik Niermeyer’s Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus (1976)