Noun: vita
Gender: f
Hyphenation: vì‧ta
| Singular f | vita |
| Plural f | vite |
Sample Sentences
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Nel mezzo del cammin di nostra vita
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mi ritrovai per una selva oscura,
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ché la diritta via era smarrita. (Halfway through the journey of our life, I found myself inside a dark forest, for the straightforward path was lost.) [1300s–1310s, Dante Alighieri, “Canto I”, in Inferno [Hell], lines 1–3; republished as Giorgio Petrocchi, editor, La Commedia secondo l'antica vulgata [The Commedia according to the ancient vulgate], 2ⁿᵈ revised edition, Florence: publ. Le Lettere, 1994:]
Nouns inflected like vita
monferrina,
ossichinolina,
palestra,
nipoteria,
gualdrappa,
bacinella,
minicassetta,
bestemmia,
geostoria,
sferra,
sferza,
sfilza,
triplofonia,
fiduciaria,
meteoroscopia,
ipersonnia,
sovrabbondanza,
corbezzola,
pseudoestesia,
viminata, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Latin vīta, from Proto-Italic *gʷītā, possibly a derivative of Proto-Indo-European *gʷih₃wo-teh₂, from the root *gʷeyh₃- (“to live”). See: Latin Nouns '
vīta'.
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