Vistula

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English

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Etymology

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Learned borrowing from Latin Vistula.

Pronunciation

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Proper noun

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Vistula

  1. The longest river in Poland, which flows into the Baltic Sea.

Translations

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Latin

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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In the form Visula and Visla at least sometimes directly acquired from Proto-Slavic *Visъla. The form Viscla resolves the /sl/ cluster like in Sclavus, uncommon in Latin, and in Germanic, via which it has sometimes been acquired.

Often explained as from the Proto-Indo-European root *weys- (to flow) as in Proto-Germanic *waisǭ (mire), although if of Slavic origin then *visěti (to hang) would afford a readier stem, suffixed +‎ *-lo +‎ *-a or +‎ *-sla, for which ever reason they would have called it the “hanging river” or “saggy stream”.

View of the river

Proper noun

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Vistula f sg (genitive Vistulae); first declension

  1. Vistula
    • 551, Jordanes, De origine actibusque Getarum[1], section V:
      Sclavini a Civitate Novidunensi (Mss. : Civitate Nova et Sclavino Rumunensi), et lacu qui appellatur Mursianus (var. : Musianus, Murianus), usque ad Danastrum, et in Boream Viscla tenus commorantur: hi paludes silvasque pro civitatibus habent.
      The Slavs abide from Noviodunum ad Istrum now known as Isákča and the Mursa lake to the Dniester, and farther north up to the Vistula: here they have the swamps and forests for municipalities.

Declension

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First-declension noun, singular only.

Case Singular
Nominative Vistula
Genitive Vistulae
Dative Vistulae
Accusative Vistulam
Ablative Vistulā
Vocative Vistula

References

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  • Vistula”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • Vistula in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Vistula”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly