vie

vie

1. (international standards) ISO 639-2 & ISO 639-3 language code for Vietnamese.

Aphetic form of envy.

• IPA^(key): /vaɪ/
• Rhymes: -aɪ

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vie (third-person singular simple present vies, present participle vying, simple past and past participle vied)

1. (intransitive) To fight for superiority; to contend; to compete eagerly so as to gain something.

   Her suitors were all vying for her attention.

   • 1711 July 15 (Gregorian calendar)​, Joseph Addison; Richard Steele [et al.], “WEDNESDAY, July 4, 1711”, in The Spectator, number 109; republished in Alexander Chalmers, editor, The Spectator; a New Edition, […], volume II, New York, N.Y.: D[aniel] Appleton & Company, 1853, →OCLC:

     It is the tradition of a trading nation […] , that the younger sons […] may be placed in such a way of life as […] to vie with the best of their family.

2. (transitive, archaic) To rival (something), etc.
   • c. 1606–1607, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Anthonie and Cleopatra”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):

     But, if there be, or ever were, one such, / It's past the size of dreaming: nature wants stuff / To vie strange forms with fancy; yet, to imagine / An Antony, were nature's piece 'gainst fancy, / Condemning shadows quite.

3. (transitive) To do or produce in emulation, competition, or rivalry; to put in competition; to bandy.
   • c. 1590–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Taming of the Shrew”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i]:

     She hung about my neck; and kiss on kiss / She vied so fast.

   • 1649, J[ohn] Milton, ΕΙΚΟΝΟΚΛΆΣΤΗΣ [Eikonoklástēs] […], London: […] Matthew Simmons, […], →OCLC:

     Nor was he set over us to vie wisdom with his Parliament, but to be guided by them.

   • 1633, George Herbert, The Sacrifice:

     And vying malice with my gentleness, / Pick quarrels with their only happiness.

4. To stake; to wager.
   • 1605 (first performance)​, Benjamin Jonson [i.e., Ben Jonson], “Volpone, or The Foxe. A Comœdie. […]”, in The Workes of Ben Jonson (First Folio), London: […] Will[iam] Stansby, published 1616, →OCLC:

     Out, thou camelion harlot! now thine eyes Vie tears with the hyæna

   • c. 1606–1607, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Anthonie and Cleopatra”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene ii]:

     Nature wants stuff
     To vie strange forms with fancy

5. To stake a sum of money upon a hand of cards, as in the old game of gleek. See revie.

• battle
• compete
• oppose

• concede
• reconcile

vie (plural vies)

1. (obsolete) A contest.

• -ive, I've

From Latin vita.

vie f (plural vies)

1. life

From Old Norse vígja, from Proto-Germanic *wīhijaną.

vie (imperative vi, present tense vier, simple past viede, past participle viet)

1. dedicate something to someone or towards a cause
2. wed two persons into marriage

• indvie
• vielse
• vievand

• IPA^(key): /ˈʋie̯/, [ˈʋie̞̯]
• Rhymes: -ie
• Syllabification^(key): vie

vie

1. third-person singular present indicative of viedä

• IPA^(key): /ˈʋie̯ˣ/, [ˈʋie̞̯(ʔ)]
• Rhymes: -ie
• Syllabification^(key): vie

vie

1. present active indicative connegative of viedä
2. second-person singular present imperative of viedä
3. second-person singular present active imperative connegative of viedä

• vei

• IPA^(key): /vi/

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• Homophones: vies, vis, vit

From Old French vie, from older Old French viḍe, from Vulgar Latin vītam, from Latin vīta, from Proto-Italic *gʷītā.

vie f (countable and uncountable, plural vies)

1. life, the state of organisms (organic beings) prior to death
2. life, period in which one is alive, between birth and death
3. biography, life
4. life, lifeforms

   L’apparition de la vie sur Terre

   The appearance of life on Earth

5. cost of living

   La vie a drôlement augmenté depuis quelque temps : il ne me reste plus grand-chose quand j’ai payé tous les impôts.

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• Antillean Creole: vi
• Guianese Creole: lavi
• Haitian Creole: lavi
• Louisiana Creole: vi
• Seychellois Creole: lavi

Ultimately from Latin via. Compare voie.

vie f (plural vies)

1. (Switzerland, Jura) way, path (road, railway, etc)

• vionnet (Switzerland, rare)

• “vie”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• IPA^(key): /ˈvi.e/
• Rhymes: -ie
• Hyphenation: vì‧e

vie f

1. plural of via

• -evi, evi

viē

1. second-person singular present active imperative of vieō

vie

1. Lenited form of mie.

• Mark Abley, Spoken Here: Travels Among Threatened Languages (2003)

From Old Norse vígja, from Proto-Germanic *wīhijaną.

vie (imperative vi, present tense vier, simple past vigde or vidde or via or viet, past participle vigd or vidd or via or viet)

1. dedicate something to someone or towards a cause
2. wed two persons into marriage

• innvie
• vielse
• vievann

• “vie” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

vie (present tense vier, past tense vigde, supine vigd or vigt, past participle vigd, present participle viande, imperative vi)

1. alternative form of via

From Latin vīta.

vie f (oblique plural vies, nominative singular vie, nominative plural vies)

1. life
   • c. 1170, Chrétien de Troyes, Érec et Énide:

     Mout avoit changiee sa vie

     Much had it changed his life

• Middle French: vie
  • French: vie
    • Antillean Creole: vi
    • Guianese Creole: lavi
    • Haitian Creole: lavi
    • Louisiana Creole: vi
    • Seychellois Creole: lavi
  • Norman: vie (Guernésiais)
• Walloon: veye, vèie

From Latin vita.

vie f (plural vies)

1. life

• IPA^(key): /ˈvi.e/

From Latin vīnea.

vie f (plural vii)

1. vineyard
2. vine

• (vine): viță

• viță de vie

• vier

Forms of the adjective viu.

vie

1. nominative/accusative feminine singular of viu

• via

From Latin vīvere, present active infinitive of vīvō, from Proto-Italic *gʷīwō, from Proto-Indo-European *gʷíh₃weti (“to live, be alive”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈvie/

a vie (third-person singular present vie, past participle vis) 3rd conj.

1. (rare, dated) to have life; to live, exist
2. (of intangibles, such as emotions and beliefs) to endure

• dura
• exista
• fi
• trăi
• viețui

• viere

• învie

MDA2 via *vie in DEX online - Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)

vie

1. third-person singular present of vedieť