vitta

Borrowed from Latin vitta.

• Rhymes: -ɪtə

vitta (plural vittae)

1. A fillet, or garland for the head.
2. (zoology) A longitudinal stripe.
3. (botany) An oil tube in the fruit of some plants.

• Ivatt

• weta, witta (Medieval Latin)

From Latin vieō.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈu̯it.ta/, [ˈu̯ɪt̪ːä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈvit.ta/, [ˈvit̪ːä]

vitta f (genitive vittae); first declension

1. band, ribbon
2. fillet, headband, chaplet

First-declension noun.

• “vitta”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• vitta in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

vitta

1. genitive plural of vitt