vicine

English

Etymology 1

Vicia +‎ -ine

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈvɪsɪn/, /ˈvɪsiːn/

Noun

vicine (uncountable)

  1. (organic chemistry) An alkaloid extracted from the seeds of the vetch (Vicia sativa) as a white crystalline substance.

Etymology 2

Latin vicinus.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈvɪsɪn/, /ˈvɪsaɪn/

Adjective

vicine (comparative more vicine, superlative most vicine)

  1. (obsolete) Nearby; neighbouring; vicinal.
    • 1665, Joseph Glanvill, Scepsis Scientifica:
      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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)

Italian

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /viˈt͡ʃi.ne/
  • Rhymes: -ine
  • Hyphenation: vi‧cì‧ne

Noun

vicine f

  1. plural of vicina

Adjective

vicine

  1. feminine plural of vicino

Anagrams

Latin

Etymology 1

From vīcīnus (“near, neighboring”) +‎ -ē.

Pronunciation
  • (Classical) IPA(key): /u̯iːˈkiː.neː/, [u̯iːˈkiːneː]
  • (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /viˈt͡ʃi.ne/, [viˈt͡ʃiːne]

Adverb

vīcīnē (comparative vīcīnius, superlative vīcīnissimē)

  1. nearby, in the neighborhood

Etymology 2

Inflected form of vīcīnus (“near, neighboring”).

Pronunciation
  • (Classical) IPA(key): /u̯iːˈkiː.ne/, [u̯iːˈkiːnɛ]
  • (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /viˈt͡ʃi.ne/, [viˈt͡ʃiːne]

Noun

vīcīne

  1. 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
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