vicissim
Meaning
- not comparablein turn, back, again
Sed, tē quī vīvum cāsūs, age fāre vicissim,
But answer you; and in your turn relate, what brought you living still.29 BCE – 19 BCE, Vergilius, Aeneis 6.531
Latīnē defined in Latin in our graded readers
in vicēs, mūtuōChoosing the right word Döderlein's Latin Synonyms
Vicissim · Invicem · Mutuo
Vicissim (from εἰκάζω) denotes, like on the other hand, and in hand, and in turn, a successive; invicem and mutuo, like reciprocally and in return, a mutual acting and suffering between two persons or things; invicem, more with reference to reciprocal actions; mutuo, to reciprocal or mutual states. (vi. 402.)
in vicem): nunc mihi vicissim supplicabunt, Plaut. As. 3, 3, 92: da te mihi vicissim, Ter. Heaut. 4, 3, 10: terra uno tempore florere, deinde vicissim horrere potest, Cic. N. D. 2, 7, 19; cf. id. Sen. 16, 57: exspecto, quid ille tecum, quid tu vicissim, id. Att. 16, 3, 3: audire aliquem, id. N. D. 2, 1, 3: praebebo ego me tibi vicissim attentum contra Stoicos auditorem, id. ib. 3, 1, 2: hanc veniam petimusque damusque vicissim, Hor. A. P. 11: considera nunc vicissim tuum, Cic. Fam. 3, 6, 3: versique vicissim Rutuli, etc., Verg. A. 12, 462: age, fare vicissim, id. ib. 6, 531.Charlton Lewis's shorter dictionary for students: the same scholarship in plain, modern definitions.
Origins
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. Compare anteclassical vicissātim.
In English words that came into English from vicissim
- vicissitudevicissitūdō