What does da vici mean?

Answer 1

Answer 1:My guess is that this is a misspelling of "da Vinci", as in the name of the Renaissance figure Leonardo. If so, the meaning is "from Vinci", the town in Tuscany where Leonardo was born.

If not, read on . . .

Answer 2:Da is the imperative of dare, to give. So the first part is Give! Vici is the genitive of vicis, change/succession, so it orders you to 'give to change' I guess sucession makes more sense here so, 'Give to sucession' I suppose something like, Make way for the new batch, make way for the next generation et cetera... is also a valid translation.

For those of you, like my nephew, who have seen vici (weekee) and thought of veni, vidi, vici, and then simply assumed da means from, like in Italian, you are wrong. I'm afraid. 'From' in Latin is ab, de, ex and there is no preposition da in Latin. So it would mean 'Give, I conquered' Which makes sense, I suppose in broken Latin, but the above answer is correct.

Alterantively, if you used bad Latin grammar, it could mean 'Give villages' or 'Give the village's...' Da vici. Da is the same as before, however this time vici steams from vicus meaning village. This however makes no grammatical sense and the above answer is correct. I wonder though if some Gallic leader in the past said this in broken latin, 'Vos da vici nostri! Da, vici!' pointing to the villages in the distant. You give villages to us! Give, I conquered! Anyway, sorry for the diversion. It means, Give to sucession, give way to sucession.