What does vitta mean in Latin?

vitta, a noun, means “band, ribbon; fillet, headband, chaplet”.

What is the genitive of vitta?

The genitive singular is vittae. vitta is feminine, first declension.

In classical Latin, [ˈwɪt.ta]; in ecclesiastical (church) Latin, [ˈvit.ta].

lāna longa et sacra, quā victima et sacerdōs cinguntur.

vitta -ae f — in Mille Verba, Deī et Sacra

fascia capitis sacra

vitta -ae (f) — in IVLIANVS II: Imperium, ch. 4

pars vestis angusta, quae rēbus sacrīs circumdatur

vitta -ae (f) — in Metamorphoses I, ch. 17

vitta, ae, f. vieo,

I. a band, esp. a fillet or chaplet worn round the head; and, in relig. lang., a head-band, a sacrificial or sacerdotal fillet, Ov. M. 2, 413; 4, 6; 5, 110; Prop. 4 (5), 11, 34; Verg. A. 2, 133; 10, 538; Luc. 5, 142; Val. Fl. 1, 480; Ov. M. 13, 643; Juv. 12, 118.—Represented as worn by poets, a symbol of their sacred office, or, acc. to Serv., in token of divine honors, Verg. A. 6, 665.—Also by brides and Vestal virgins, regarded as a symbol of chastity: capite compto crinis vittasque habeat, adsimuletque se Tuam esse uxorem, Plaut. Mil. 3, 1, 197; Tib. 1, 6, 67; Ov. P. 3, 3, 51; Prop. 4 (5), 11, 34; cf. Ov. A. A. 1, 31; id. Tr. 2, 247; id. R. Am. 386.—Bound around the altar, Verg. E. 8, 64; id. A. 3, 64; or on sacred trees, Ov. M. 8, 744; borne by suppliants for protection or pardon, Verg. A. 7, 237; 8, 128; Hor. C. 3, 14, 8; Ov. A. A. 2, 401 al.

From Latin vieō (“to plait, weave”), perhaps via an earlier *vīta, a to-particle of vieō (< *uiH-to-).

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