victima

• IPA^(key): /vik.ti.ma/

victima

1. third-person singular past historic of victimer

• victuma

From Proto-Indo-European *weyk- (“to choose, separate out, set aside as holy, consecrate, sacrifice”), same source as Proto-Germanic *wīhą (“sacred place or thing”) (Gothic 𐍅𐌴𐌹𐌷𐍃 (weihs)) and English witch.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈu̯ik.ti.ma/, [ˈu̯ɪkt̪ɪmä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈvik.ti.ma/, [ˈvikt̪imä]

victima f (genitive victimae); first declension

1. sacrificial victim

First-declension noun.

• (victim): hostia

• victimārius
• victimō

• “victima”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “victima”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• victima 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)
• victima in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to slaughter victims: victimas (oxen), hostias (smaller animals, especially sheep) immolare, securi ferire, caedere, mactare
    
  • to sacrifice human victims: pro victimis homines immolare
    
• “victima”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “victima”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

Borrowed from Latin victima.

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victima f (plural victimas)

1. victim

victima

1. inflection of victimar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative