vitale

vītālis, e, adj. [vita], of or belonging to life, vital.

I.

Adj.:

caloris natura vim habet in se vitalem,

vital power, Cic. N. D. 2, 9, 24:

spiritus,

id. ib. 2, 45, 117:

totum corpus vitalis calor liquit,

Curt. 3, 5, 3; 7, 3, 14; 8, 4, 8:

recepto calore vitali,

id. 8, 4, 17; Sen. Ben. 4, 6, 3; Lact. 2, 12, 6:

viae,

i. e. air-passages, Ov. M. 2, 828 aevum, lifetime, life, Plaut. Poen. 5, 4, 14: vita, i. e. true life, Enn. ap. Cic. Lael. 6, 22 (Enn. p. 180 Vahl.):

motus,

Lucr. 3, 560:

lumen relinquere,

i. e. to die, Ov. M. 14, 175 saecla, ages. generations, Lucr. 1, 202:

lectus,

upon which one is laid while alive and is laid out when dead, a death-bed, funeral-couch, Petr. 42: si esse salvum me vis aut vitalem tibi, i. e. remaining or keeping alive, long-lived, Plaut. Bacch. 4, 9, 75; Hor. S. 2, 1, 61; 2, 7, 4; Sen. Contr. 1, 1 fin. —

II.

Substt.

A.

vī-tāle, is, the means of life, subsistence:

mortiferum vitali admiscere,

Liv. 6, 40, 12.—

B.

vītālia, ĭum, n.

1.

The vital parts, vitals, Sen. Ira, 2, 1, 2; Luc. 7, 620; 9, 743:

capitis,

Plin. 8, 7, 7, § 20:

arborum,

id. 17, 27, 42, § 251:

rerum,

Lucr. 2, 575.—

2.

Graveclothes (cf. supra, lectus vitalis), Sen. Ep. 99, 22; Petr. 77 fin.— * Adv.: vītālĭter, vitally:

vitaliter esse animata,

with life, vitally, Lucr. 5, 145.