vaco

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Catalan

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Verb

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vaco

  1. first-person singular present indicative of vacar

Italian

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈva.ko/
  • Rhymes: -ako
  • Hyphenation: và‧co

Verb

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vaco

  1. first-person singular present indicative of vacare

Anagrams

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Latin

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Alternative forms

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  • voco (in mss. of Plautus)

Etymology

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From Proto-Italic *wakos, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁weh₂- (to lack; empty).[1] The form in vo- possibly from vocīvus, shifted in pretonic syllable.

Pronunciation

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Verb

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vacō (present infinitive vacāre, perfect active vacāvī, supine vacātum); first conjugation

  1. to be empty, void
  2. to be unoccupied, vacant
  3. to be idle, at leisure [with dative]
    Synonyms: langueō, dēsideō, iaceō, cessō, resideō, sileō, conquiēscō
    Philosophiae vacat.
    He has leisure for philosophy.
  4. to be free to attend, have time, not be under other obligation

Conjugation

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   Conjugation of vacō (first conjugation)
indicative singular plural
first second third first second third
active present vacō vacās vacat vacāmus vacātis vacant
imperfect vacābam vacābās vacābat vacābāmus vacābātis vacābant
future vacābō vacābis vacābit vacābimus vacābitis vacābunt
perfect vacāvī vacāvistī,
vacāstī1
vacāvit,
vacāt1
vacāvimus,
vacāmus1
vacāvistis,
vacāstis1
vacāvērunt,
vacāvēre,
vacārunt1
pluperfect vacāveram,
vacāram1
vacāverās,
vacārās1
vacāverat,
vacārat1
vacāverāmus,
vacārāmus1
vacāverātis,
vacārātis1
vacāverant,
vacārant1
future perfect vacāverō,
vacārō1
vacāveris,
vacāris1
vacāverit,
vacārit1
vacāverimus,
vacārimus1
vacāveritis,
vacāritis1
vacāverint,
vacārint1
passive present vacor vacāris,
vacāre
vacātur vacāmur vacāminī vacantur
imperfect vacābar vacābāris,
vacābāre
vacābātur vacābāmur vacābāminī vacābantur
future vacābor vacāberis,
vacābere
vacābitur vacābimur vacābiminī vacābuntur
perfect vacātus + present active indicative of sum
pluperfect vacātus + imperfect active indicative of sum
future perfect vacātus + future active indicative of sum
subjunctive singular plural
first second third first second third
active present vacem vacēs vacet vacēmus vacētis vacent
imperfect vacārem vacārēs vacāret vacārēmus vacārētis vacārent
perfect vacāverim,
vacārim1
vacāverīs,
vacārīs1
vacāverit,
vacārit1
vacāverīmus,
vacārīmus1
vacāverītis,
vacārītis1
vacāverint,
vacārint1
pluperfect vacāvissem,
vacāssem1
vacāvissēs,
vacāssēs1
vacāvisset,
vacāsset1
vacāvissēmus,
vacāssēmus1
vacāvissētis,
vacāssētis1
vacāvissent,
vacāssent1
passive present vacer vacēris,
vacēre
vacētur vacēmur vacēminī vacentur
imperfect vacārer vacārēris,
vacārēre
vacārētur vacārēmur vacārēminī vacārentur
perfect vacātus + present active subjunctive of sum
pluperfect vacātus + imperfect active subjunctive of sum
imperative singular plural
first second third first second third
active present vacā vacāte
future vacātō vacātō vacātōte vacantō
passive present vacāre vacāminī
future vacātor vacātor vacantor
non-finite forms active passive
present perfect future present perfect future
infinitives vacāre vacāvisse,
vacāsse1
vacātūrum esse vacārī vacātum esse vacātum īrī
participles vacāns vacātūrus vacātus vacandus
verbal nouns gerund supine
genitive dative accusative ablative accusative ablative
vacandī vacandō vacandum vacandō vacātum vacātū

1At least one rare poetic syncopated perfect form is attested.

Derived terms

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Descendants

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References

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  • De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “vacō”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 649
  • Weiss, Michael L. (2009) Outline of the Historical and Comparative Grammar of Latin[1], Ann Arbor: Beech Stave Press, →ISBN, page 141
  1. ^ Pokorny 141, pages 345-346

Further reading

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  • vaco”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • vaco”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • vaco 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)
  • vaco in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[2], London: Macmillan and Co.
    • to be free from business: negotiis vacare
    • to be free from blame: culpa carere, vacare

Neapolitan

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From the older (and still regionally used) vao, from Latin vādō.

Pronunciation

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Verb

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vaco

  1. first-person singular present indicative of

References

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  • AIS: Sprach- und Sachatlas Italiens und der Südschweiz [Linguistic and Ethnographic Atlas of Italy and Southern Switzerland] – map 822: “vo a comprare” – on navigais-web.pd.istc.cnr.it

Portuguese

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Verb

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vaco

  1. first-person singular present indicative of vacar

Spanish

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈbako/ [ˈba.ko]
  • Rhymes: -ako
  • Syllabification: va‧co

Etymology 1

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Borrowed from Latin vacuus.

Adjective

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vaco (feminine vaca, masculine plural vacos, feminine plural vacas)


  1. (formal) vacant; blank
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Etymology 2

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Masculine variant of vaca (cow).

Noun

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vaco m (plural vacos)

  1. (colloquial) bull

Etymology 3

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Verb

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vaco

  1. first-person singular present indicative of vacar

Further reading

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