vittea

Borrowed from Old Saxon *fittea, from Proto-West Germanic *fittju, from Proto-Germanic *fitjō, *fitī; compare Old English fitt ( > Modern English fit), German Fitze.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈwɪt.te.a]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈvit̪.t̪e.a]

vittea f (genitive vitteae); first declension

1. (Medieval Latin) a fitt or section of an old Germanic poem
   • From the Praefatio in librum antiquum lingua Saxonica conscriptum (preface to the Old Saxon Heliand), likely 9th century (manuscript from 16th century):

     Juxta morem vero illius poematis omne opus per vitteas distinxit, quas nos lectiones vel sententias possumus appellare.

     According to the form of that poem he has divided the entire work into fitts, which we might call readings or chapters.

First-declension noun.