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vide.

the tendril of a grapevine

4 characters2 syllables approx.Português language

Meaning & usage

noun/ˈvi.d͡ʒi/Brazil/ˈvi.dɨ/Portugal[ˈvi.ðɨ]Portugal/ˈbi.dɨ/Northern, Portugal
  1. the tendril of a grapevine

    feminine
  2. the grapevine itself

    feminine
  3. the navel-string part that directly ends into the placenta or (rare) into the fetus's navel

    colloquial · feminine
  4. the umbilical cord itself

    broadly · colloquial · feminine · rare
Where this word comes from

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *weh₁y- Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Indo-European *wéh₁itis Proto-Italic *wītis Latin vītis Old Galician-Portuguese vide Portuguese vide Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese vide, from Latin vītis (“a grapevine, or any vine”), from Proto-Italic *wītis, from Proto-Indo-European *wéh₁itis (“that which twines or bends; branch, switch”), from *weh₁y- (“to twine, wind”) + *-tis (abstract or action suffix).

verb
  1. see; refer to

    formal · imperative
Where this word comes from

Borrowed from Latin vidē, second-person singular imperative of videō (“to see”, whence vídeo).

verb
  1. inflection of vidar: first/third-person singular present subjunctive

    first-person · form-of · present · singular · subjunctive · third-person
  2. inflection of vidar: third-person singular imperative

    form-of · imperative · singular · third-person
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