Meaning of vita?

[moogester]

Wonder if anyone knows what vita means?  I've been given a family pedigree going back to 1305, all of the entries before 1500 have vita before the date.  I don't want to add the names to my tree until I understand what the date signifies.

[Priscilla]

Have Googled the word "vita" - it means life - so am guessing it was their way of writing "born" ... but am happy to be corrected!

[sstarr2008]

Life or living.

As in alive at that time, often meaning that the person in question was mentioned in some sort of document at that date.

Stu

[moogester]

Thanks to both of you, I knew I'd get the answer on here 

[Suffolk Mawther]

Most original documents going back to those dates would have been written in Latin - hence, vita with the explanation that Stu has given  

Pat ...