वि ind.
1 As a prefix to verbs and nouns it expresses:−(a) separation, disjunction (apart, asunder, away, off &c.), as वियुज्, विहृ, वि- चल् &c.; (b) the reverse of an action; as क्री ‘to buy’; विक्री, ‘to sell’; स्मृ ‘to remember’; विस्मृ ‘to forget’; (c) division; as विभज्, विभाग; (d) distinction; as वि- शिष्, विशेष, विविच्, विवेक; (e) discrimination; व्यवच्छेद; (f) order, arrangement; as विधा, विरच्; (g) opposition; as विरुध्, विरोध; privation; as विती, विनयत; (i) deliberation, as विचर, विचार; (j) ntensity; विध्वंस.
2 As a prefix to nouns or adjectives not immediately connected with roots वि expresses (a) negation or privation, in which case it is used much in the same way as अ or निर्, i. e. it forms Bah. comp., विधवा, व्यसुः &c.; (b) intensity, greatness; as विकराल; (c) variety, as विचित्र; (d) difference; as विलक्षण; (e) manifoldness, as विविध; (f) contrariety, opposition, as विलोम; (g) change, as विकार; (h) impropriety, as विजन्मन्.
वि m., f.
1 A bird.
2 A horse.
3 A goer.
4 A rein.
5 An epithet of the Soma.
6 A sacrificer (mostly Ved. in the last four senses).