vitulus

• viclus (Late Latin, proscribed)

From Proto-Italic *wetelos, from Proto-Indo-European *wet- (“year”), same source as Ancient Greek ἔταλον (étalon), Albanian viç, English wether, Scots weddir, woddir, wadder (“wether”), Dutch weder, weer (“wether”), German Widder (“wether, ram”), Swedish vädur (“wether, ram”), Icelandic veður (“wether, ram”). See also Ancient Greek Ῑ̓ταλός (Ītalós).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈwɪ.tʊ.ɫʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈviː.t̪u.lus]

vitulus m (genitive vitulī); second declension

1. a bull calf

   Synonym: bovulus (Medieval Latin)

2. clipping of vitulus marīnus (“seal”)

Second-declension noun.

• vitellus
• vitulus marīnus (“sea calf, seal”)

• vitula

• “vitulus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “vitulus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "vitulus", 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)
• vitulus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “vitulus”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray