vitta Latin · revision 31522

+ {{infobox|confidence=probable|formation=derivation|attested=c. 250–184 BC, Plautus|origins=ine-pro *u̯h₁i-}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [ˈwɪt.ta]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [ˈvit.ta]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''vitta''' ''f'' (genitive vittae); first declension^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is formed from [[vieō|t=to plait, weave]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010) De Vaan suggests that it comes from an earlier ⟨*vīta⟩, continuing an old participle ⟨*uiH-to-⟩ of that root.^(de Vaan 2008)^(Wiktionary) He derives ⟨vieō⟩ from [[itc-pro|*wijeje/o-|t=to plait]] and [[ine-pro|*u̯h₁i-éie-|t=to plait]], cognate with [[sa|व्ययति|tr=vyáyati|t=to wind, wrap]] and [[lt|vyti|t=to twist, wind]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Köbler dates it from Plautus,^(Köbler 2010) where a woman is to wear a matron's hairstyle and headbands so as to pass as someone's wife.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is first a linen headband worn by Roman married and unmarried women.^(OLD 2012) In religion it is a woollen band, worn alone or with the ''īnfula'': by priests, as Virgil's Laocoon with his fillets soaked in gore, by sacrificial victims, carried by suppliants, and tied to altars and sacred objects, as in Virgil's ''Eclogues''.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) In Pliny the Elder it is any band or strap.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

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+ In Church Latin it is a ribbon or band, and also either of the two ribbons hanging from a mitre.^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus of a matron's headbands.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 70–19 BC – Virgil of priests' fillets and of altars bound with wool.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 23/24–79 AD – Pliny the Elder of leather straps.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # A linen [[m|en|headband]] worn by women.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

+ # A woollen [[m|en|fillet]] in religious ritual, worn by priests, victims and suppliants or tied to altars.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # A band, [[m|en|ribbon]], strap.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Stelten 1995)

+ # ''(Ecclesiastical Latin)'' One of the two ribbons of a [[m|en|mitre]].^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[vittātus]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[vieō]]

+ * [[īnfula]]

+ * [[vīmen]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}