vir
Portuguese
/viɾ/, /vi(ʁ)/
verb
Definitions
- (intransitive) to come to move towards the speaker or the agent
- (intransitive) to come; to arrive to reach a destination, especially where the speaker is
- (intransitive) to come to manifest itself, to occur
- (intransitive) to come to be located in a certain position in a sequence
- to come from; to be from to have as one’s place of origin
- to be caused by; to be due to
- to come back (from); to return (from)
- (auxiliary) have/has been forms the present perfect progressive aspect
- to end up to eventually do
- to bitch; to whine to complain, especially unnecessarily
Etymology
Inherited from Old Portuguese vĩir inherited from Latin venīre inherited from Proto-Italic *gʷenjō inherited from Proto-Indo-European *gʷm̥yéti.
Origin
Proto-Indo-European
*gʷm̥yéti
Gloss
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- baeto Latin
- beto Latin
- venio Latin
- venīre Latin
- contravvenire Italian
- sopravvenire Italian
- svenire Italian
- venire Italian
- survenir French
- venir French
- bienvenido Spanish, Castilian
- revenir Spanish, Castilian
- sobrevenir Spanish, Castilian
- venir Spanish, Castilian
- *gʷeh₂- Proto-Indo-European
- *gʷem- Proto-Indo-European
- *gʷm̥yéti Proto-Indo-European
- por Portuguese
- porvir Portuguese
- venir Old French
- veni Esperanto
- vir Galician
- contraveni Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- preveni Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- reveni Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- veni Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- venire Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- viitor Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- venir Middle French
- vĩir Old Portuguese
- *gʷenjō Proto-Italic
- venir Asturian
- vignî Friulian
- venir Old Occitan
- venir Old Spanish
- vegner Venetian
- bin Papiamentu
- bini Papiamentu
- vener Dalmatian
- ben Kabuverdianu
- vini Mauritian Creole
- vegnì Ladin
- venì Neapolitan
- vignì Istriot
- *gʷəňňō Proto-Hellenic
- vini Louisiana Creole French
- vini pli mal Louisiana Creole French
- bin Guinea-Bissau Creole
- vegnir Franco-Provençal
- venire Leonese