vectura

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /u̯ekˈtuː.ra/, [u̯ɛkˈt̪uːrä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /vekˈtu.ra/, [vekˈt̪uːrä]

Etymology 1

From vehō (“convey, transport”, verb) +‎ -tūra (noun-forming suffix).

Noun

vectūra f (genitive vectūrae); first declension

1. transportation
2. fare paid for transport
3. wagon

Declension

First-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	vectūra	vectūrae
genitive	vectūrae	vectūrārum
dative	vectūrae	vectūrīs
accusative	vectūram	vectūrās
ablative	vectūrā	vectūrīs
vocative	vectūra	vectūrae

Descendants

• Franco-Provençal: veitura
• French: voiture
• Italian: vettura
• Portuguese: viatura
• Piedmontese: avciûra
• Sicilian: vittura
• → English: vecture (learned)

Further reading

• “vectura”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “vectura”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "vectura", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• vectura in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “vĕctūra”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volumes 14: U–Z, page 214

Etymology 2

Participle

vectūra

1. inflection of vectūrus:
   1. nominative/vocative feminine singular
   2. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter plural

Participle

vectūrā

1. ablative feminine singular of vectūrus