vacío

See also: vacio and vació

Asturian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /baˈθio/ [baˈθi.o]
• Rhymes: -io
• Syllabification: va‧cí‧o

Adjective

vacío

1. neuter of vacíu

Galician

Alternative forms

• vazio (reintegrationist)

Etymology

Attested since circa 1300. From Latin vacīvus, from vacō. Compare Portuguese vazio and Spanish vacío.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /baˈθio/ [baˈθi.ʊ]

• IPA^(key): (standard) /baˈθio/ [baˈθi.ʊ]
• IPA^(key): (seseo) /baˈsio/ [baˈsi.ʊ]

• Rhymes: -io
• Hyphenation: va‧cí‧o

Adjective

vacío (feminine vacía, masculine plural vacíos, feminine plural vacías)

1. (dated) empty

   Synonym: baleiro

   • 1484, X. Ferro Couselo (ed.), A vida e a fala dos devanceiros. Escolma de documentos en galego dos séculos XIII ao XVI. 2 vols. Vigo: Galaxia, page 127:

     Iten, mando mays á dita Contança Gonçales, miña muller, a quarta parte da adega dos Vrancos, por quanto eu e ela conpramos a metade da dita adega a Meen Suares Galinato, e mándolle mays a cuba en que teño o viño branco e mays outras duas cubas que son dentro ena dita adega aa maao esquerda, vasyas, que teñen cada una doze moyos de lagar, e mays lle mando una cama de roupa con quatro cabeçaás e un colchón e un almadraque e con suas sabaas e media duzia d'almofadas e con hua manta de picote, e se ouver em casa un par de colchas, que aja ela una delas.

     Item, I devise said Constanza González, my wife, a fourth of the wine cellar of Os Brancos, since we both bought a half of it from Men Suarez Galiñato; and I also bequeath a cask in which I have the white wine, and also two other casks that are inside that wine cellar, on the left, empty, each one having twelve modii; and also bequeath to her a clothed bed with four pillows and a mattress and a mat, and with its sheets and half a dozen cushions and a wool blanket, and if there are in house a pair of quilts, she should have one

Noun

vacío m (plural vacíos)

1. (anatomy, usually in the plural) flank

   Synonyms: illar, illarga

References

• “vacío”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2026
• Seoane, Ernesto Xosé González; Granja, María Álvarez de la; Agrelo, Ana Isabel Boullón (2006–2022), “vazio”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval [Dictionary of dictionaries of Medieval Galician] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Barreiro, Xavier Varela; Guinovart, Xavier Gómez (2006–2018), “vacío”, in Corpus Xelmírez: corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval [Corpus Xelmírez: linguistic corpus of Medieval Galicia] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “vacío”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “vacío”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “vacío”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /baˈθio/ [baˈθi.o] (Equatorial Guinea, Spain)
• IPA^(key): /baˈsio/ [baˈsi.o] (Latin America, Philippines)

• Audio (Colombia):

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• Rhymes: -io
• Syllabification: va‧cí‧o

Etymology 1

Inherited from Old Spanish vazio, bazio, from Latin vacīvus, from vacō (“to be empty”).

Adjective

vacío (feminine vacía, masculine plural vacíos, feminine plural vacías)

1. empty, vacant

   Synonyms: vacuo, vacante

   Antonym: lleno

Derived terms

• caloría vacía
• con las manos vacías
• conjunto vacío

Noun

vacío m (plural vacíos)

1. vacuum, void
2. empty space; gap

   Synonyms: hueco, vacuo

Derived terms

• al vacío
• cámara de vacío
• dar en vacío
• de vacío
• hacer el vacío
• horror al vacío
• la naturaleza aborrece el vacío
• vacío legal

Etymology 2

Verb

vacío

1. first-person singular present indicative of vaciar

Further reading

• “vacío”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025