vecinus

Latin

Etymology

Probably modified from Classical vīcīnus via vowel dissimilation. Attested in Servius and an Italian document dating to 715 CE.

Adjective

vēcīnus (feminine vēcīna, neuter vēcīnum); first/second-declension adjective (Late Latin)

1. Alternative form of vīcīnus (“neighbouring”)

Noun

vēcīnus m (genitive vēcīnī); second declension (Late Latin)

1. Alternative form of vīcīnus (“neighbour”)

Descendants

• Balkan Romance:
  • Aromanian: vitsin, vitsinu, yitsin, yitsinu
  • Romanian: vecin
• Dalmatian:
  • vičain
• Italo-Romance:
  • Corsican: vicinu
  • Italian: vicino
  • Neapolitan: vecino
  • Sicilian: vicinu
• North Italian:
  • Gallo-Italic:
    • Lombard: visign
    • Old Ligurian: vexim
      • Ligurian: vixìn, vexìn
    • Piedmontese: vsin
  • Friulian: vicin
  • Istriot: viseîn, visèin
  • Romansch: vischin
  • Venetan: vissin, vizin, vesin
• Gallo-Romance:
  • Catalan: veí, vesí
  • Occitan: vesin
  • Old French: voisin, veisin (archaic or northern)
    • Champenois: vôgin
    • French: voisin
    • Franc-Comtois: vésïn
    • Norman: vaîsîn, veisin (continental Normandy)
    • Walloon: vijhén
• Ibero-Romance:
  • Old Leonese: vecin
    • Asturian: vecín
    • Mirandese: bezino
  • Old Galician-Portuguese: vezinho, veziño, vezĩo (Galicia)
    • Galician: veciño, vecín, viciño
    • Portuguese: vizinho (see there for further descendants)
  • Old Spanish: [Term?]
    • Ladino: vezino, vizino, ב׳יזינו
    • Spanish: vecino
• Borrowings:
  • → Albanian: fqinj

References

• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “vīcīnus”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volumes 14: U–Z, page 416