adjectivethird-declension two-termination adjective
vītālis1
vītālis (neuter vītāle)
Classical[wiːˈtaː.lɪs]Ecclesiastical[viˈtaː.lis]
Meaning
- two terminationof or pertaining to life; vital, life-giving
Choosing the right word Döderlein's Latin Synonyms
Vigens · Vegetus · Vividus · Vivus · Animans · Vitalis · Vivax
1. Vigens (ἀΐξαι) denotes a man, both in body and mind, fresh and in full strength; vegetus, one, in a mental sense, on the alert and animated; vividus (from ἠΰς? or from vis?), one, in a moral sense, full of life and energy. Liv. vi. 22. Exactæ jam ætatis Camillus erat . . . sed vegetum ingenium in vivido pectore vigebat, virebatque integris sensibus. 2. Vivus (Goth. quiws) means living, in opp. to dead; animans, possessing life, in opp. to inanimate. 3. Vitalis means long-lived; vivax, tenacious of life. (iv. 445.)
Declension
| form | masculine | feminine | neuter |
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | vītālis | vītālis | vītāle |
| genitive | vītālis | vītālis | vītālis |
| dative | vītālī | vītālī | vītālī |
| accusative | vītālem | vītālem | vītāle |
| ablative | vītālī | vītālī | vītālī |
| vocative | vītālis | vītālis | vītāle |
| form | masculine | feminine | neuter |
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | vītālēs | vītālēs | vītālia |
| genitive | vītālium | vītālium | vītālium |
| dative | vītālibus | vītālibus | vītālibus |
| accusative | vītālīs vītālēs | vītālīs vītālēs | vītālia |
| ablative | vītālibus | vītālibus | vītālibus |
| vocative | vītālēs | vītālēs | vītālia |
vītālis, e, adj. vita,
I. of or belonging to life, vital.
I. Adj.:
caloris natura vim habet in se vitalem, vital power, Cic. N. D. 2, 9, 24: spiritus, id. ib. 2, 45, 117: totum corpus vitalis calor liquit, Curt. 3, 5, 3; 7, 3, 14; 8, 4, 8: recepto calore vitali, id. 8, 4, 17; Sen. Ben. 4, 6, 3; Lact. 2, 12, 6: viae, i. e. air-passages, Ov. M. 2, 828 aevum, lifetime, life, Plaut. Poen. 5, 4, 14: vita, i. e. true life, Enn. ap. Cic. Lael. 6, 22 (Enn. p. 180 Vahl.): motus, Lucr. 3, 560: lumen relinquere, i. e. to die, Ov. M. 14, 175 saecla, ages. generations, Lucr. 1, 202: lectus, upon which one is laid while alive and is laid out when dead, a death-bed, funeral-couch, Petr. 42: si esse salvum me vis aut vitalem tibi, i. e. remaining or keeping alive, long-lived, Plaut. Bacch. 4, 9, 75; Hor. S. 2, 1, 61; 2, 7, 4; Sen. Contr. 1, 1 fin.—II. Substt.
A. vī-tāle, is, the means of life, subsistence:
mortiferum vitali admiscere, Liv. 6, 40, 12.—B. vītālia, ĭum, n.
1. The vital parts, vitals, Sen. Ira, 2, 1, 2; Luc. 7, 620; 9, 743:
capitis, Plin. 8, 7, 7, § 20: arborum, id. 17, 27, 42, § 251: rerum, Lucr. 2, 575.—2. Graveclothes (cf. supra, lectus vitalis), Sen. Ep. 99, 22; Petr. 77 fin.—* Adv.: vītālĭter, vitally:
vitaliter esse animata, with life, vitally, Lucr. 5, 145.Charlton Lewis's shorter dictionary for students: the same scholarship in plain, modern definitions.
vītālis e, adj.
vita, of life, vital: caloris natura vim habet in se vitalem, vital power: calor, Cu.: Vitales vias clausit, i. e. the wind-pipe, O.: vita ‘vitalis,’ ut ait Ennius, i. e. true life: lumen vitale relinquam, i. e. die, O.: ut sis Vitalis metuo, long-lived, H.: Mancipium frugi quod sit satis, hoc est Ut vitale putes, i. e. not too good to live, H.: abstinere eo quod vitale sit, life-sustaining, L.
Origins
Proto-Italic *-ālis Latin -ālis Latin vītālis From vīta (“life”) + -ālis.
Descendants
- Catalanvital
- Englishvital
- Frenchvital
- Germanvital
- Italianvitale
- Portuguesevital
- Romanianvital
- Spanishvital
- Asturianvital
- Asturianvidaya
In English words that came into English from vītālis
- vitalvītālis
- vitalityvitalitas