vaco
See also: vacò
Catalan
editVerb
editvaco
Italian
editPronunciation
editVerb
editvaco
Anagrams
editLatin
editAlternative forms
edit- voco (in mss. of Plautus)
Etymology
editFrom Proto-Italic *wakos, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁weh₂- (“to lack; empty”).[1] The form in vo- possibly from vocīvus, shifted in pretonic syllable.
Pronunciation
edit- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈu̯a.koː/, [ˈu̯äkoː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈva.ko/, [ˈväːko]
Verb
editvacō (present infinitive vacāre, perfect active vacāvī, supine vacātum); first conjugation
- to be empty, void
- to be unoccupied, vacant
- to be idle, at leisure [with dative]
- to be free to attend, have time, not be under other obligation
Conjugation
edit1At least one rare poetic syncopated perfect form is attested.
Derived terms
editRelated terms
editDescendants
edit- Aromanian: dizvoc
- ⇒ Romanian: dehoca, devoca; >? desfăca
- Sardinian: bogare, ⇒ debogada
- Sicilian: vacari
- Neapolitan: vacare (Calabrian)
- Italian: vacare
- Occitan: bagà (Gascon)
- ⇒ Occitan: desboucà
- Old French: voiier
- Catalan: vagar
- Galician: vagar
- Portuguese: vagar
- Spanish: vacar
- → English: vacate
- → Esperanto: vaki
- → French: vaquer
- → Portuguese: vacar
References
edit- 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
- ^ Pokorny 141, pages 345-346
Further reading
edit- “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
- to be free from business: negotiis vacare
Neapolitan
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editFrom the older (and still regionally used) vao, from Latin vādō.
Pronunciation
editVerb
editvaco
References
edit- 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
editVerb
editvaco
Spanish
editPronunciation
editEtymology 1
editAdjective
editvaco (feminine vaca, masculine plural vacos, feminine plural vacas)
Derived terms
editEtymology 2
editMasculine variant of vaca (“cow”).
Noun
editvaco m (plural vacos)
Etymology 3
editVerb
editvaco
Further reading
edit- “vaco”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28
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- Rhymes:Italian/ako
- Rhymes:Italian/ako/2 syllables
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- Italian verb forms
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- Latin terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Latin 2-syllable words
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- Latin verbs
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- Latin first conjugation verbs
- Latin first conjugation verbs with perfect in -av-
- Latin words in Meissner and Auden's phrasebook
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- Rhymes:Neapolitan/akə
- Neapolitan non-lemma forms
- Neapolitan verb forms
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