vitto

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈvit.to/
• Rhymes: -itto
• Hyphenation: vìt‧to

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Classical Latin vīctus (“lifestyle; nourishment”), from vīvō (“to live; to survive”).

Noun

vitto m (plural vitti)

1. (archaic) nourishment

   Synonym: nutrimento

   • 1516–1532, Ludovico Ariosto, “Canto 20”, in Orlando furioso, stanza 26; republished as Santorre Debenedetti, editor, Bari: Laterza, 1928:

     […] la gente estrana, / ch’or d’Africa portava, ora d’Egitto / cose diverse e necessarie al vitto.

     Foreigners, who brought—sometimes from Africa, sometimes from Egypt—various things needed for nourishment.

2. food(s) used for daily nutrition; meals

   Synonym: cibo

   1. board (regular meals or the amount paid for them in a place of lodging)

      vitto e alloggio ― board and lodging

Derived terms

• sopravvitto

Further reading

• vitto in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
• vitto in internazionale.it – Dizionario Italiano di Internazionale – Il Nuovo di Mauro

Etymology 2

From Latin victus, perfect passive participle of vincō (“conquer”).

Participle

vitto (feminine vitta, masculine plural vitti, feminine plural vitte)

1. (archaic) past participle of vincere

Further reading

• vitto_2 in internazionale.it – Dizionario Italiano di Internazionale – Il Nuovo di Mauro