A Grammatical Dictionary of Botanical Latin

Vitis, gen. sg. vitis (s.f.III), abl. sg. vite, nom. & acc. pl. vites, gen. pl. vitium (an i-stem), dat. & abl. pl. vitibus: a vine, the grape vine; see ‘grape.’

NOTE: ‘vitium,’ the genitive plural of ‘vitis’ is not to be confused with the noun vitium,-ii (s.n.II), q.v.

Vitis, gen. sg. Vitis (s.f.III), abl. sg. Vite (s.f.III): the genus of the grape; V. labrusca L., source of many grapes used in horticulture, such as the Concord, Champion and Chautauqua; V. aestivalis Michx.; V. palmata Vahl, V. riparia. Note that classically vitis may also refer to viney plants such as the pumpkin, cucurbits and other pepo-bearing plants;

- tres esse motus in vite, seu potius in surculo, naturales: unum quo geminet; alterum quo floreat; tertium quo maturescat” (Lewis & Short), there being three natural stages in a vine, or rather in a shoot: one by which it may double [i.e. reproduce]; another by which it may flower; the third by which it may ripen.

- [Geraniaceae] folia ad nodos inferiores opposita, aut alterna pedunculis tunc folio oppositis, ut in Vite (DeCandolle),leaves on the lowwer nodes opposite, or alternate, then the peduncles opposite to the leaf, as in Vitis.

like Vitis: vitaceus,-a,-um (adj.A).

Columna,-ae (s.f.I), q.v.; also columen,-inis (s.n.II), q.v., culmen,-inis (s.n.III): a prop, stake for (grape) vines;

- columna vitium, the prop of vines;

- [Agaricum; fungus] Autumni tempore Acerum campestrium semimortuarum caudicibus, necnon Vitium columnis, & guandoque in sylvis ad glandiferas arbores (Mich.), in the season of Autumn on the trunks of half-dead Acer campestre, and also on the stakes [i.e. props] of vines and sometimes in forests on nut-bearing trees.

Pedamen,-inis (s.n.III), abl sg. pedamine, also pedamentum,-i (s.n.II), abl. sg. pedamento: a prop, a stake, stick, etc. to support something;

- pedaminibus annexae vites, vines bound [or tied] to stakes.

- [Agaricum] ad vitium pedamenta tam in urbanis hortis, quam in agris (Mich.), on the stakes of vines both in city gardens, and in the fields.