vītālis, e, adj. [vita], of or belonging to life, vital.
I Adj. : caloris natura vim habet in se vitalem, vital power , Cic. N. D. 2, 9, 24: spiritus, id. ib. 2, 45, 117: totum corpus vitalis calor liquit, Curt. 3, 5, 3; 7, 3, 14; 8, 4, 8: recepto calore vitali, id. 8, 4, 17; Sen. Ben. 4, 6, 3; Lact. 2, 12, 6: viae, i. e. air-passages , Ov. M. 2, 828 aevum, lifetime , life , Plaut. Poen. 5, 4, 14: vita, i. e. true life , Enn. ap. Cic. Lael. 6, 22 ( Enn. p. 180 Vahl.): motus, Lucr. 3, 560: lumen relinquere, i. e. to die , Ov. M. 14, 175 saecla, ages. generations , Lucr. 1, 202: lectus, upon which one is laid while alive and is laid out when dead , a death-bed , funeral-couch , Petr. 42: si esse salvum me vis aut vitalem tibi, i. e. remaining or keeping alive , long-lived , Plaut. Bacch. 4, 9, 75; Hor. S. 2, 1, 61; 2, 7, 4; Sen. Contr. 1, 1 fin. —
II Substt.
A vītāle , is, the means of life , subsistence : mortiferum vitali admiscere, Liv. 6, 40, 12.—
B vītālia , ĭum, n.
1 The vital parts , vitals , Sen. Ira, 2, 1, 2; Luc. 7, 620; 9, 743: capitis, Plin. 8, 7, 7, § 20: arborum, id. 17, 27, 42, § 251: rerum, Lucr. 2, 575.—
2 Graveclothes (cf. supra, lectus vitalis), Sen. Ep. 99, 22; Petr. 77 fin.— * Adv.: vītālĭter , vitally : vitaliter esse animata, with life , vitally , Lucr. 5, 145.