vicina

Borrowed from French voisin, Italian vicino, Spanish vecino. Decision no. 1341, Progreso VII.

• IPA^(key): /viˈt͡si.na/

vicina

1. (especially of people) neighboring, bordering, contiguous, adjacent

• Progreso V (in Ido), 1912–1913, page 341
• Progreso VII (in Ido), 1914, page 131

• IPA^(key): /viˈt͡ʃi.na/
• Rhymes: -ina
• Hyphenation: vi‧cì‧na

vicina f (plural vicine)

1. female equivalent of vicino

vicina

1. feminine singular of vicino

• avinci, incavi

From vīcus (“town, street, quarter”).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /u̯iːˈkiː.na/, [u̯iːˈkiːnä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /viˈt͡ʃi.na/, [viˈt͡ʃiːnä]

vīcīna f (genitive vīcīnae); first declension

1. (female) neighbour/neighbor
2. (of space) vicinity
3. (of time) nearness
   • 1637, Cornelius a Lapide, chapter 20, in Commentaria in Scripturam Sacram, volume X, Apocalypsin, left column last paragraph Lugduni, Apud Pelagaud et Lesne, page 1309:

     Desinant ergo haeretici sperare vicinam ejus eversione, quasi post illam ipso mille anno regnaturi sonito usque ad tempora Got and Magog.

     Therefore the heretics should desist to hope for the nearness of its overthrow, as if after that themselves would be being about to reign until the times of Gog and Magog.

First-declension noun.

• vīcīnus