vacantia

Interlingua

Etymology

Cf. Dutch vakantie.

Noun

vacantia (plural vacantias)

1. vacation

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [waˈkan.ti.a]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [vaˈkan.t̪͡s̪i.a]

Etymology 1

Participle

vacantia

1. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter plural of vacāns

Noun

vacantia n pl (genitive vacantium); third declension

1. vacant estates
2. superfluous things

Declension

Third-declension noun (neuter, pure i-stem), plural only.

	plural
nominative	vacantia
genitive	vacantium
dative	vacantibus
accusative	vacantia
ablative	vacantibus
vocative	vacantia

Etymology 2

From vacāns +‎ -ia. Not attested until the Medieval period.

Noun

vacantia f (genitive vacantiae); first declension (Medieval Latin)

1. free time; leisure
2. a vacancy
3. the annual income of a vacant ecclesiastical benefice

   Synonyms: vacāta, annāta

Declension

First-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	vacantia	vacantiae
genitive	vacantiae	vacantiārum
dative	vacantiae	vacantiīs
accusative	vacantiam	vacantiās
ablative	vacantiā	vacantiīs
vocative	vacantia	vacantiae

Descendants

• Old Occitan:
  • Catalan: vacança
• Piedmontese: vacansa
• Venetan: vacansa
• → Dutch: vakantie, vacantie (dated, superseded)
  • Afrikaans: vakansie
  • → Aukan: fakansi
  • → Indonesian: vakansi
  • → Saramaccan: fakansi
  • → Sranan Tongo: fakansi
    • → Caribbean Javanese: fakansi
• → Old French:
  • French: vacance
    • → Alemannic German: Vakanz
    • → German: Vakanz
    • → Italian: vacanza
      • → Ladino: vakansas
      • → Romanian: vacanță
    • → Luxembourgish: Vakanz
• → Portuguese: vacância
• → Sardinian: vacàntzia
• → Spanish: vacancia

References

• R. E. Latham, D. R. Howlett, & R. K. Ashdowne, editors (1975–2013), “vacantia”, in Dictionary of Medieval Latin from British Sources‎^[1], London: Oxford University Press for the British Academy, →ISBN, →OCLC
• "vacantia", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)