vanus
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Estonian[edit]
Noun[edit]
vanus (genitive [please provide], partitive [please provide])
Declension[edit]
This noun needs an inflection-table template.
Latin[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Proto-Indo-European *h₁weh₂- (“empty”).
Pronunciation[edit]
Adjective[edit]
vānus (feminine vāna, neuter vānum); first/second declension
- vain, empty, vacant, void
- 4th century, St Jerome, Vulgate, 2 Paralipomenon 32:15
- non vos ergo decipiat Ezechias nec vana persuasione deludat neque credatis ei si enim nullus potuit deus cunctarum gentium atque regnorum liberare populum suum de manu mea et de manu patrum meorum consequenter nec Deus vester poterit eruere vos de hac manu (Therefore let not Ezechias deceive you, nor delude you with a vain persuasion, and do not believe him. For if no god of all the nations and kingdoms, could deliver his people out of my hand, and out of the hand of my fathers, consequently neither shall your God be able to deliver you out of my hand.)
- 4th century, St Jerome, Vulgate, 2 Paralipomenon 32:15
- unsubstantial
- (figuratively) groundless, baseless, meaningless
- ostentatious, boastful
- deceptive, untrustworthy
Inflection[edit]
Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
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Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
nominative | vānus | vāna | vānum | vānī | vānae | vāna | |
genitive | vānī | vānae | vānī | vānōrum | vānārum | vānōrum | |
dative | vānō | vānō | vānīs | ||||
accusative | vānum | vānam | vānum | vānōs | vānās | vāna | |
ablative | vānō | vānā | vānō | vānīs | |||
vocative | vāne | vāna | vānum | vānī | vānae | vāna |
- superlative: vānissimus
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References[edit]
- vanus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- vanus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- vanus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
- vanus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette