English Explanatory Dictionary

Vitus

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. A male given name from Latin.
  2. A lake in Alaska.

Word forms

Vitus

Etymology

Name of an early martyr, Late Latin Vitus, perhaps from a Thracian word meaning "a person from Bithynia". Also associated with Latin vita (“life”). Vitus has also been used as a Latinization of Guy.

Derived words

vitusite St. Vitus' dance
This entry uses open data from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA/GFDL). Word forms are used for search and are not indexed as separate pages.
Back to search All on V Russian dictionary Dahl dictionary