vane

See also: Vane, vanë, and väne

English

Etymology

From Middle English vane, Southern Middle English variant of fane, from Old English fana (“cloth, banner, flag”), from Proto-Germanic *fanô. Cognate with Saterland Frisian Foone (“flag, banner”) and German Fahne. Compare fane.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /veɪn/
• Rhymes: -eɪn
• Homophones: vain, vein

Noun

vane (plural vanes)

1. (countable) a weather vane
2. any of several usually relatively thin, rigid, flat, or sometimes curved surfaces radially mounted along an axis, as a blade in a turbine or a sail on a windmill, that is turned by or used to turn a fluid
3. (ornithology) the flattened, web-like part of a feather, consisting of a series of barbs on either side of the shaft
4. a sight on a sextant or compass
5. one of the metal guidance or stabilizing fins attached to the tail of a bomb or other missile

Translations

weather vane — see weather vane

curved surface radially mounted along an axis

• Catalan: aspa f
• Finnish: siipi (fi); lapa (fi)
• French: pale (fr) f
• Galician: pena (gl) f, pela f
• Georgian: ხრახნის ლაპოტა (xraxnis laṗoṭa)
• Italian: aletta (it) f, pala (it) f
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• Portuguese: aleta f
• Russian: ло́пасть (ru) f (lópastʹ)
• Spanish: aspa (es) f
• Swedish: skena (sv) c

ornithology: flattened web-like part of a feather

• Catalan: bandera (ca), vexil·la
• Finnish: höyty
• Galician: vexilo m
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• Portuguese: vexilo (pt) m
• Spanish: vexilo m

sight on a sextant or compass

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metal guidance or stabilizing fin

• Finnish: siiveke (fi)
• Italian: aletta (it) f
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Russian: стабилизатор (ru) m (stabilizator)

Anagrams

• Evan, Nave, Neva, Vena, aven, nave, neva

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Danish

Etymology

From Old Norse vani.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /vaːnə/, [ˈvæːnə]

Noun

vane c (singular definite vanen, plural indefinite vaner)

1. habit
2. practice

Inflection

Declension of vane

common gender	Singular		Plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	vane	vanen	vaner	vanerne
genitive	vanes	vanens	vaners	vanernes

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Esperanto

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈvane/

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Adverb

vane

1. in vain

Related terms

• vana (“fruitless”)

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Italian

Adjective

vane f pl

1. (deprecated template usage) Feminine plural of adjective vano.

Anagrams

• nave, vena

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Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈu̯aː.ne/, [ˈu̯äːnɛ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈva.ne/, [ˈväːne]

Adjective

(deprecated template usage) vāne

1. vocative masculine singular of vānus

References

• “vane”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• vane in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

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Middle English

Noun

vane

1. Alternative form of fane (“flag, vane”)

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Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Old Norse vani

Noun

vane m (definite singular vanen, indefinite plural vaner, definite plural vanene)

1. a habit, custom

Derived terms

• matvane

References

• “vane” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Old Norse vani

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /²ʋɑːnə/

Noun

vane m (definite singular vanen, indefinite plural vanar, definite plural vanane)

1. a habit, custom
   • 1957, Tarjei Vesaas, Fuglane:

     Hege hadde for lang tid sidan slutta og bedi han halde seg ifrå denna trøyttande vanen.

     Hege had long ago stopped asking him to refrain from this tiresome habit.

Derived terms

• matvane

References

• “vane” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.