vidua

See also: Vidua and vídua

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *wiðowā, Proto-Indo-European *h₁widʰéwh₂. Cognates include Sanskrit विधवा (vidhávā), Ancient Greek ἠΐθεος (ēḯtheos), Proto-Slavic *vьdova and Old English widuwe (English widow).[1]

Pronunciation

Noun

vidua f (genitive viduae); first declension

  1. widow
  2. unmarried woman

Declension

First-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative vidua viduae
genitive viduae viduārum
dative viduae viduīs
accusative viduam viduās
ablative viduā viduīs
vocative vidua viduae

Descendants

  • Balkan Romance:
    • Aromanian: veduã
    • Romanian: văduvă
  • Istriot: viduva
  • Italo-Romance:
    • Italian: vedova
      • → Piedmontese: vidoa
    • Judeo-Italian: וֵידוּוַה (weduwah /⁠veduva⁠/)
    • Sicilian: vìduva, vìdua
  • North-Italian:
  • Gallo-Romance:
    • Franco-Provençal: veva
    • Gascon: veuda
    • Old Catalan: viuva
    • Old French: veve, vauve, vedve
    • Old Occitan: vezoa, veuva, veva
      • Occitan: veusa
        • Auvergnat: vueva
        • Limousin: veuva
  • Ibero-Romance:
  • Sardinian: fiuda

Adjective

vidua

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

Adjective

viduā

  1. ablative feminine singular of viduus

References

  1. ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “viduus (> Derivatives > vidua)”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 676-7

Further reading

  • “vidua”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • “vidua”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
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