vitta

Borrowed from Latin vitta.

• Rhymes: -ɪtə

vitta (plural vittae)

1. A fillet, or garland for the head.
2. (zoology) A longitudinal stripe.
   • 1870, American Entomologist and Botanist, volume 2, page 301:

     The curved black line behind the scutel is usually expanded, in connection with the metathoracic black vitta, into a broad black triangle, the apex of which does not quite attain the abdominal peduncle.

3. (botany) An oil tube in the fruit of some plants.

• Ivatt

• weta, witta (Medieval Latin)

From Latin vieō (“to plait, weave”), perhaps via an earlier *vīta, a to-particle of vieō (< *uiH-to-).^[1]

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈwɪt.ta]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈvit̪.t̪a]

vitta f (genitive vittae); first declension

1. band, ribbon
2. fillet, headband, chaplet

First-declension noun.

• “vitta”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• vitta in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

vitta

1. genitive plural of vitt