vicina

Ido

Etymology

Borrowed from French voisin, Italian vicino, Spanish vecino. Decision no. 1341, Progreso VII.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /viˈt͡si.na/

Adjective

vicina

1. (especially of people) neighboring, bordering, contiguous, adjacent

Derived terms

• vicinajo (“vicinity (a place); something neighboring”)
• vicinaro (“neighborhood: neighbors”)
• vicinesar (“to be contiguous”)
• vicineso (“neighborhood: nearness, vicinity”)
• vicino (“neighbor, neighbour”)

References

• Progreso V (in Ido), 1912–1913, page 341
• Progreso VII (in Ido), 1914, page 131

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /viˈt͡ʃi.na/
• Rhymes: -ina
• Hyphenation: vi‧cì‧na

Noun

vicina f (plural vicine)

1. female equivalent of vicino

Adjective

vicina

1. feminine singular of vicino

Anagrams

• avinci, incavi

Latin

Etymology

From vīcus (“town, street, quarter”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /u̯iːˈkiː.na/, [u̯iːˈkiːnä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /viˈt͡ʃi.na/, [viˈt͡ʃiːnä]

Noun

vīcīna f (genitive vīcīnae); first declension

1. (female) neighbour/neighbor
2. (of space) vicinity
3. (of time) nearness
   • 1637, Cornelius a Lapide, chapter 20, in Commentaria in Scripturam Sacram, volume X, Apocalypsin, left column last paragraph Lugduni, Apud Pelagaud et Lesne, page 1309:

     Desinant ergo haeretici sperare vicinam ejus eversione, quasi post illam ipso mille anno regnaturi sonito usque ad tempora Got and Magog.

     Therefore the heretics should desist to hope for the nearness of its overthrow, as if after that themselves would be being about to reign until the times of Gog and Magog.

Declension

First-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	vīcīna	vīcīnae
genitive	vīcīnae	vīcīnārum
dative	vīcīnae	vīcīnīs
accusative	vīcīnam	vīcīnās
ablative	vīcīnā	vīcīnīs
vocative	vīcīna	vīcīnae

Descendants

• French: voisine
• Italian: vicina
• Ladino: vizina, ב׳יזינה
• Occitan: vesina
• Portuguese: vizinha
• Romanian: vecină
• Spanish: vecina

See also

• vīcīnus