Adjective

1. alive, live
2. brisk, animate, vivacious
3. vivid, intense, brilliant

Related terms

• al vivo
• argento vivo
• a viva forza
• dal vivo
• da vivo
• vivamente

Etymology

Verb

1. I live
   • by Cicero (Latin text and English translations may be found here)

     O tempora, o mores! Senatus haec intellegit, consul videt; hic tamen vivit. Vivit?

     Shame on the age and on its principles! The senate is aware of these things; the consul sees them; and yet this man lives. Lives!

   • by Cicero (Latin text and English translations may be found here)

     Quam diu quisquam erit qui te defendere audeat, vives, et vives ita ut nunc vivis, multis meis et firmis praesidiis obsessus ne commovere te contra rem publicam possis. Multorum te etiam oculi et aures non sentientem, sicut adhuc fecerunt, speculabuntur atque custodient.

     As long as one person exists who can dare to defend you, yet shall live; but you shall live as you do now, surrounded by my many and trusty guards, so that you shall not be able to stir one finger against the republic: many eyes and ears shall still observe and watch you, as they have hitherto done, though you shall not perceive them.

2. I'm alive, I survive
3. I reside in
   • by Cicero (Latin text and English translations may be found here, a parsed version is here)

     O di immortales, ubinam gentium sumus? Quam rem publicam habemus? In qua urbe vivimus?

     O ye immortal gods, where on earth are we? What is the government we have? In what city are we living?

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