vacuitas

Latin

Etymology

vacuus (“empty”, “vacant”) +‎ -tās

Pronunciation

(Classical) IPA^(key): /u̯aˈku.i.taːs/, [u̯äˈkuɪt̪äːs̠]

(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /vaˈku.i.tas/, [väˈkuːit̪äs]

Noun

vacuitās f (genitive vacuitātis); third declension

empty space, vacancy, vacuity

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	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.

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