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Viva vs Vivat - What's the difference?

viva | vivat |

As interjections the difference between viva and vivat

is that viva is long live ... ! (used to express acclaim or support) while vivat is a cry wishing someone long life and prosperity.

As a verb viva

is to cheer, applaud.

As a noun viva

is an oral examination, typically for an academic qualification.

viva

English

Etymology 1

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Interjection

  • Long live ... ! (used to express acclaim or support ).

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • To cheer, applaud
  • * 1841 , Joseph Bullar, Henry Bullar, A winter in the Azores, and a summer at the baths of the Furnas
  • * 1859 , The Atlantic Monthly
  • * 1857 , George Payne R James, Leonora d'Orco

    • Etymology 2

    Shortened from (m), (etyl) for “live voice”

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An oral examination, typically for an academic qualification.

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • (label) To subject to an examination of this kind.
  • * 1931 , Henry Sanderson Furniss Sanderson, Memories of sixty years
  • * 1972 , The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History
  • * 2009 , Gianni Paganini, Jose Raimundo Maia Neto, Renaissance Scepticisms
    • English heteronyms ----

    vivat

    English

    Interjection

    (head)
  • A cry wishing someone long life and prosperity.
  • * 2002 , , The Great Nation , Penguin 2003, p. 338:
    • The magistrates were mobbed by vivat -yelling crowds, some 10,000 of whom made their way to the Bastille where they clamoured for Rohan's release.
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