vivat
French, noun\vi.va\
vivat is spelled V-I-V-A-T (5 letters) and appears about once in every 9 million words in written French, the 100,007th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Vivat is a French masculine noun meaning “cheer” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Acclamation, cri de joie de la foule”.
What does vivat mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinecheer
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Acclamation, cri de joie de la foule.
interjection: 1. Vive.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of vivat
- vivats plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce vivat?
- \vi.va\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is vivat in French?
vivat appears about once in every 9 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).