Noun: vită
Long Infinitive of Verb:
Nominative
| Sg. Indef. | vită |
| Sg. Def. | vita |
| Pl. Indef. | vite |
| Pl. Def. | vitele |
Genitive
| Sg. Indef. | vite |
| Sg. Def. | vitei |
| Pl. Indef. | vite |
| Pl. Def. | vitelor |
Vocative
| Singular | vită; vito |
| Plural | vitelor |
Sample Sentences
Nouns inflected like vită
sfârlă,
botelniță,
palestră,
sfeclă,
endopericardită,
sforță,
mesapică,
mesalină,
mucarniță,
săpoaică,
mânzoaică,
turbosuflantă,
paraglobină,
ustensilă,
serată,
serină,
sepală,
sezină,
seanță,
sedilă, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. Generally taken as inherited from Latin vīta (“life”), from Proto-Italic *gʷītā. In this view, the shift toward the meaning “animal” is sometimes explained as Slavic influence; compare Bulgarian животно (životno, “animal”) alongside живот (život, “life”).
2. Another possibility is a back-formation from Romanian vițea (“heifer”), by removing the diminutive suffix -ea, with /t͡s/ > /t/ reversing a pattern seen in forms like ciopată → ciopățea. Under this account, the original sense would have been “cow.” See: Latin Nouns '
vīta'.
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