vacuitas

Latin

Etymology

vacuus (“empty”, “vacant”) +‎ -tās

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /u̯aˈku.i.taːs/, [u̯äˈkuɪt̪äːs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /vaˈku.i.tas/, [väˈkuːit̪äs]

Noun

vacuitās f (genitive vacuitātis); third declension

1. empty space, vacancy, vacuity

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	vacuitās	vacuitātēs
genitive	vacuitātis	vacuitātum
dative	vacuitātī	vacuitātibus
accusative	vacuitātem	vacuitātēs
ablative	vacuitāte	vacuitātibus
vocative	vacuitās	vacuitātēs

Descendants

• Catalan: vacuïtat
• English: vacuity
• French: vacuité
• Galician: vacuidade
• Italian: vacuità
• Portuguese: vacuidade
• Romanian: vacuitate
• Spanish: vacuidad

References

• “vacuitas”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “vacuitas”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• vacuitas in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.