vectura
Latin
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [wɛkˈtuː.ra]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [vekˈt̪uː.ra]
Etymology 1
From vehō (“convey, transport”, verb) + -tūra (noun-forming suffix).
Noun
vectūra f (genitive vectūrae); first declension
- transportation
- fare paid for transport
- wagon[1]
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)
References
- ^ Adams, James Noel. 2013. Social variation and the Latin language. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Page 777.
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, volume 14: U–Z, page 214
Etymology 2
Participle
vectūra
- inflection of vectūrus:
- nominative/vocative feminine singular
- nominative/accusative/vocative neuter plural
Participle
vectūrā
- ablative feminine singular of vectūrus