vacantia

Interlingua

Etymology

Cf. Dutch vakantie.

Noun

vacantia (plural vacantias)

1. vacation

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Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /u̯aˈkan.ti.a/, [u̯äˈkän̪t̪iä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /vaˈkan.t͡si.a/, [väˈkänt̪͡s̪iä]

Etymology 1

Derived from the vacant- oblique stem of vacāns +‎ -ia.

Noun

vacantia f (genitive vacantiae); first declension

1. leisure

   Synonym: otium

2. An empty place.

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case	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
• Venetian: vacansa
• → Dutch: vakantie
• → Old French:
  • French: vacance
    • → Alemannic German: Vakanz
    • → German: Vakanz
    • → Italian: vacanza
      • → Ladino: vakansas
      • → Romanian: vacanță
    • → Luxembourgish: Vakanz
• → Portuguese: vacância
• → Sardinian: vacàntzia
• → Spanish: vacancia

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Participle

(deprecated template usage) vacantia

1. nominative neuter plural of vacāns
2. accusative neuter plural of vacāns
3. vocative neuter plural of vacāns

References

• 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)