vectis

See also: Vectis

English

Etymology

Naturalized into medical English and ISV from Latin vectis.

Noun

vectis (plural vectes)

1. (surgery, medicine) Any of various surgical instruments with prying functions.
   • 1911, Casey Albert Wood, “Chapter VIII: Extraction of the senile type of cataract”, in Casey Albert Wood, editor, A System of Ophthalmic Operations‎, volume 2, Cleveland Press, page 1176:

     Then, again, the capsule may be insufficiently incised, or not opened at all. The surgeon generally discovers this failure when, on pressure, he finds that the lens moves slightly but makes no actual progress towards a complete exit. In that event, a very sharp cystotome should be used a second time. As mentioned before, the capsule of Morgagnian cataracts is extremely difficult to cut even with a proper capsulotome. Difficulty is to be expected with very opaque capsules, especially when they present a large, white, dense, circumscribed opaque area. Having been forewarned by these appearances the surgeon will employ a very sharp cystotome, using cautiously a little more force than usual, tearing the capsule if needed. Should vitreous escape in front of the lens and the latter sink backward into the vitreous the best plan is to finish the operation by means of a wire loop or vectis. This procedure does not necessarily increase the vitreous loss.

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *wektis, from Proto-Indo-European *wéǵʰ-tis, from the root *weǵʰ- (“to ride”). Cognate with vehō, Sanskrit ऊढि (ūḍhi).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈwɛk.tɪs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈvɛk.tis]

Noun

vectis m (genitive vectis); third declension

1. a strong pole or bar used for leverage; lever; crowbar; handspike
2. a carrying-pole
3. a bar or bolt (for fastening a door)

Declension

Third-declension noun (i-stem, ablative singular in -e or -ī).

	singular	plural
nominative	vectis	vectēs
genitive	vectis	vectium
dative	vectī	vectibus
accusative	vectem	vectēs vectīs
ablative	vecte vectī	vectibus
vocative	vectis	vectēs

Derived terms

• vectiārius
• vecticulus m

Descendants

• Catalan: vit m
• Italian: vette m
• Old French: vit m
  • French: vit m
• Sardinian: bette m
• ⇒ Vulgar Latin: *vecticulus m
  • Fala: bitillu, betillu
  • Galician: vetillo, bitillo

References

• “vectis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “vectis”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "vectis", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “vectis”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “vectis”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• De Vaan, Michiel (2008), “vehō, -ere”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 658