vicine
English
Etymology 1
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈvɪsɪn/, /ˈvɪsiːn/
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Noun
vicine (uncountable)
- (organic chemistry) An alkaloid extracted from the seeds of the vetch (Vicia sativa) as a white crystalline substance.
Etymology 2
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈvɪsɪn/, /ˈvɪsaɪn/
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Adjective
vicine (comparative more vicine, superlative most vicine)
- (obsolete) Nearby; neighbouring; vicinal.
- 1665, Joseph Glanvill, Scepsis Scientifica: Or, Confest Ignorance, the Way to Science; […], London: […] E. C[otes] for Henry Eversden […], →OCLC:
- it's difficult to apprehend , but that these avennues should in a short time be stopped up by the pressure of other parts of the matter , through its natural gravity , or other alterations made in the Brain : And the opening of other vicine passages might quickly obliterate any tracks of these ; as the making of one hole in the yielding mud , defaces the print of another near it
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “vicine”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
Italian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /viˈt͡ʃi.ne/
- Rhymes: -ine
- Hyphenation: vi‧cì‧ne
Noun
vicine f
- plural of vicina
Adjective
vicine
- feminine plural of vicino
Anagrams
Latin
Etymology 1
From vīcīnus (“near, neighboring”) + -ē.
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [wiːˈkiː.neː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [viˈt͡ʃiː.ne]
Adverb
vīcīnē (comparative vīcīnius, superlative vīcīnissimē)
- nearby, in the neighborhood
Related terms
Etymology 2
Inflected form of vīcīnus (“near, neighboring”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [wiːˈkiː.nɛ]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [viˈt͡ʃiː.ne]
Noun
vīcīne
- vocative singular of vīcīnus
References
- “vicine”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- vicine in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.