Vitus

Definition: Vitus

Vitus

Noun

1. Christian martyr and patron of those who suffer from epilepsy and Sydenham's chorea (died around 300).

"Vitus" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "a life".

Date "Vitus" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1851. (references)

"Vitus" is a common misspelling or typo for: virus.

Specialty Definitions: Vitus

Domain	Definitions
Biographical Satire	VITUS, Saint, dancing master whose repertoire did not include the turkey trot. Source: Who was Who: 5000BC - 1914.
Literature	Vitus (St.). St. Vitus's dance, once widely prevalent in Germany and the Low Countries, was a "dancing mania." So called from the supposed power of St. Vitus over nervous and hysterical affections. "At Strasbourg hundreds of folk began To dance and leap, both maid and man; In open market, lane, or street, They skipped along, nor cared to eat, Until their plague had ceased to fright us. 'Twas called the dance of holy Vitus." Jan of Konigshaven (an old Cerman $$$). St. Vitus's Dance. A description of the jumping procession on Whit-Tuesday to a chapel in Ulm dedicated to St. Vitus, is given in Notes and Queries, September, 1856. (See Tarantism.). Source: Brewer's Dictionary.
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Synonym: Vitus

Synonym: St Vitus (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Vitus

English words defined with "Vitus": Saint Vitus dance, St Vitus, St. Vitus dance ♦ Vitus Behring, Vitus Bering. (references)

Specialty definitions using "Vitus": DANCE ♦ VITUS. (references)

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Modern Usage: Vitus

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	Come Vitus, are we men or are we childrens ? (The Black Cat; writing credit: Edgar G. Ulmer)
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Commercial Usage: Vitus

Domain	Title
Books	Saint Vitus Dances Eternity = Sveti Vito Plese Za Vjecnost: A Sarajevo Ghost Story = Sarajevska Prica O Duhovima (reference) (more book examples)
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Image Slideshow: Vitus

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Photo Album: Vitus

Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	Pictores operis, Heinricus Fullmaurer, Albertus Meyer, sculptor Vitus Rodolph Speckle.Credit: Library of Congress.
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Non-Fiction Usage: Vitus

Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		Sydenham chorea, also called St. Vitus dance, is a childhood movement disorder characterized by rapid, irregular, aimless, involuntary movements of the muscles of the limbs, face, and trunk. (references)
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Usage Frequency: Vitus

"Vitus" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 94.74% of the time. "Vitus" is used about 38 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (proper)	94.74%	36	57,479
Noun (plural)	5.26%	2	245,945
Total	100.00%	38	N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Derived & Related Names: Vitus

"Vitus" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "a life".

The following table summarizes names related to "Vitus."
Name	Gender	Language	Related Name
Vita	Female	Ancient Roman	Vitus
Vitus	Male	Ancient Roman	N/A
Vít	Male	Czech	Vitus
Vita	Female	Danish	Vitus
Vita	Female	English	Vitus
Vida	Male	Hungarian	Vitus
Vito	Male	Italian	Vitus
Vid	Male	Slovene	Vitus
Vito	Male	Spanish	Vitus
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Expressions: Vitus

Expressions using "Vitus": Saint Vitus dance ♦ St Vitus ♦ St. Vitus dance ♦ Vitus Behring ♦ Vitus Bering. Additional references.
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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Vitus

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day
e clampus vitus	24
vitus	22
st vitus dance	19
saint vitus	19
vitus bering	15
st vitus	14
bicycle vitus	9
979 vitus	8
vanda vitus	7
992 vitus	5
cathedral st vitus	4
dance saint vitus	4
discography saint vitus	2
frame vitus	2
bike vitus	2
cathedral prague st vitus	2
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Modern Translations: Vitus

Language		Translations for "Vitus"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Russian		пляска святого витта (saint vitus dance). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Vitus

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "i-s-t-u-v"
	-1 letter: suit, tuis.
	-2 letters: its, sit, tis, tui, uts, vis.
	-3 letters: is, it, si, ti, us, ut.
	Words containing the letters "i-s-t-u-v"
	+1 letter: virtus.
	+2 letters: fauvist, outvies, qiviuts, revuist, stuiver, suavity, tussive, uveitis, virtues, vomitus.
	+3 letters: aquavits, curviest, fauvists, outgives, outlives, oviducts, revuists, rivulets, stuivers, uvulitis, venturis, viaducts, victuals, virtuosa, virtuose, virtuosi, virtuoso, virtuous, viscount, vitellus, vitreous, volutins, vomitous, vuggiest, vulvitis.
	+4 letters: adjustive, antivirus, auditives, causative, cultivars, curatives, duratives, duvetines, eluviates, eruptives, extrusive, exuviates, fugitives, intrusive, involutes, muscovite, obtrusive, outcavils, outdrives, outlivers, outrivals, outvoices, rotavirus, scurviest, seductive, servitude, suavities, summative, triumvirs, unvisited, uveitides, uveitises, vacuities, vastitude, vaultiest, vaultings, veinulets, vestibule, vestigium, vesturing, vexatious, viaticums, viduities, virtuosas, virtuosic, virtuosos, viscounts, viscounty, volutions, vomituses, vulturish.
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