vix

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *wiks sg (nom.), *wiksu pl (“a turn, bend”, loc.), from Proto-Indo-European *weyk-.[1]

Pronunciation

(Classical) IPA^(key): /u̯iks/, [u̯ɪks̠]

(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /viks/, [viks]

Adverb

vix (not comparable)

with difficulty; scarcely, barely
hardly, merely, just (of time)

Descendants

Navarro-Aragonese: veiza (Glosas Emilianenses)
Neapolitan: vi (Abruzzese)
Romansch: ves
⇒ Aromanian: ayia
⇒ Romanian: abia
⇒ Spanish: abés (archaic)

References

Meyer-Lübke, Wilhelm (1911) chapter VIX, in Romanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), page 720

De Vaan, Michiel (2008) chapter VIX, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 686

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