vivat
/ˈviˌvɑt/interjection, noun
vivat is an interjection meaning “A cry wishing someone long life and prosperity” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled V-I-V-A-T and has 2 syllables, and it appears about once in every 22 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does vivat mean?
interjection
- 1
A cry wishing someone long life and prosperity.
noun
- 1
An utterance of the interjection vivat.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce vivat?
- UK /ˈviːˌvæt/
- UK /ˈvaɪˌvæt/
- US /ˈviˌvɑt/
Vivat has 2 syllables (counted from the pronunciation).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of vivat
- vivats plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is vivat?
Vivat appears about once in every 22 million words in written English, the 143,405th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Where does vivat come from?
From Latin vīvat (literally “may s/he live”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).