vidua

From Proto-Italic *wiðowā, Proto-Indo-European *h₁widʰéwh₂. Cognates include Sanskrit विधवा (vidhávā), Ancient Greek ἠΐθεος (ēḯtheos), Proto-Slavic *vьdova and Old English widuwe (English widow).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈu̯i.du.a/, [ˈu̯ɪd̪uä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈvi.du.a/, [ˈviːd̪uä]

vidua f (genitive viduae); first declension

1. widow
2. unmarried woman

First-declension noun.

vidua

1. inflection of viduus:
   1. nominative/vocative feminine singular
   2. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter plural

viduā

1. ablative feminine singular of viduus

• viduitās
• viduō
• viduus

• “vidua”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “vidua”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly