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vicar

English

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Etymology

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From Middle English vicar, viker, vikyr, vicaire, vicare, a borrowing from Anglo-Norman vikare, vicare, vikaire, vikere and Old French vicaire (“deputy, second in command”), from Latin vicārius (“vicarious, substitute”).

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Noun

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vicar (plural vicars)

  1. In the Church of England, the priest of a parish, receiving a salary or stipend but not tithes.
    Hypernym: cleric
    • 1907 January, Harold Bindloss, chapter 20, in The Dust of Conflict, 1st Canadian edition, Toronto, Ont.: McLeod & Allen, →OCLC:
      Hester Earle and Violet Wayne were moving about the aisle with bundles of wheat-ears and streamers of ivy, for the harvest thanksgiving was shortly to be celebrated, while the vicar stood waiting for their directions on the chancel steps with a great handful of crimson gladioli.
    • 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
      All this was extraordinarily distasteful to Churchill. It was ugly, gross. Never before had he felt such repulsion when the vicar displayed his characteristic bluntness or coarseness of speech. In the present connexion […] such talk had been distressingly out of place.
    • 1997, Frank Muir, chapter 1, in A Kentish Lad, →ISBN:
      For this [annual choir outing] the vicar traditionally hired a brake, an ancient, Edwardian, horse-drawn, bus-like vehicle which had plodded along for many years between Ramsgate and Pegwell Bay, carrying passengers who were in no hurry, until it became so unroadworthy that no horse could be persuaded to pull it on a regular basis.
  2. In the Roman Catholic and some other churches, a cleric acting as local representative of a higher ranking member of the clergy.
    Hypernym: cleric
  3. A person acting on behalf of, or representing, another person.

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Descendants

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  • → Welsh: ficer

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Ido

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Etymology

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Derived from vice +‎ -ar.

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Verb

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vicar (present vicas, past vicis, future vicos, conditional vicus, imperative vicez)

  1. (transitive, archaic) to replace
    Synonym: remplasar

Conjugation

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    Conjugation of vicar
  present past future
infinitive vicar vicir vicor
tense vicas vicis vicos
conditional vicus
imperative vicez
adjective active participle vicanta vicinta viconta
adverbial active participle vicante vicinte viconte
nominal active participle singular vicanto vicinto viconto
plural vicanti vicinti viconti
adjective passive participle vicata vicita vicota
adverbial passive participle vicate vicite vicote
nominal passive participle singular vicato vicito vicoto
plural vicati viciti vicoti

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References

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  • Progreso III (in Ido), 1910–1911, page 102
  • Progreso VII (in Ido), 1914, page 130

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Etymology

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Borrowed from French vicaire, from Latin vicarius.

Noun

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vicar m (plural vicari)

  1. vicar

Declension

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singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative-accusative vicar vicarul vicari vicarii
genitive-dative vicar vicarului vicari vicarilor
vocative vicarule vicarilor
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