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vicus

vicus

1 9.9
A small Roman town near a fort that sold things to soldiers
  • noun
  • /ˈvaɪkəs/
  • Archaic
: vicus
  • "The thunderclap is repeated ten times in the book, the last consisting of 101 letters, signifying the commodious vicus (Vico) of recirculation (cyclic history).
  • a commodious vicus

Examples

  • The first time the word Viking is recorded is in English (Old English wicing) and then used as a word for people from other nations living in the English towns (Old English wic = town, related to Latin villa and vicus, meaning village).

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  • And this is a chroma Teniki vicus, probably saying that wrong.

  • By a commodious vicus of rapid rewinding: FORMATTED TEXT

    Fiction book (1990)

  • The ink-on-wood tablets discovered here provide insights into the lives of the fort's Roman soldiers and the people living in the neighboring vicus, a civilian settlement.

  • In ancient Roman times, a vicus served as a small settlement where families lived and traded near a fort.

  • Archaeologists found remnants of houses in the old vicus, highlighting the active community that once thrived there.

Surface Forms

vicus singular
vici plural

Etymology

Vicus was a Latin word for a small 'village' or 'street' often next to a fort where merchants and workers lived to help soldiers. You can see the same root in vicinity ('nearby area'), so vicus means a neighborhood or small settlement.