vacatio

Latin

Etymology

vacō (“to be free”) +‎ -tiō

Pronunciation

Noun

vacātiō f (genitive vacātiōnis); third declension

  1. freedom, exemption, immunity (from service)
  2. privilege

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative vacātiō vacātiōnēs
Genitive vacātiōnis vacātiōnum
Dative vacātiōnī vacātiōnibus
Accusative vacātiōnem vacātiōnēs
Ablative vacātiōne vacātiōnibus
Vocative vacātiō vacātiōnēs

Descendants

References
  • “vacatio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “vacatio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • vacatio 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)
  • vacatio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
    • to be excused military duty: militiae vacationem habere
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