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Meaning of vitium | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B1
[ˈwɪ.ti.ũː]

Definitions

  1. flaw, defect, blemish, imperfection
    declension-2, neuter
  2. vice
    declension-2, neuter
  3. crime, wrongdoing, misdeed, sin, error, fault
    declension-2, neuter
  4. disease (of plants)
    declension-2, neuter

Equivalents

English defect hole

Examples

“accipit ille locus positō vēlāmine cūnctās et vitium nūdī corporis omne videt That place receives [you] with all [your] garments set aside, and exposes every blemish on the naked body. (See Fortuna Virilis.)”
“nam prima virtus est vitio carere”

Translation by Harold Edgeworth Butler Since the first of all virtues is the avoidance of faults (literally, “For the first virtue is to lack vice”)

CEFR level

B1
Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.

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