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Asturian
Adjective
vacío
- neuter of vacíu
Galician
Etymology
Attested since circa 1300. From Latin vacīvus, from vacō. Compare Portuguese vazio and Spanish vacío.
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -io
- Hyphenation: va‧cí‧o
Adjective
vacío (feminine vacía, masculine plural vacíos, feminine plural vacías)
- (dated) empty
- 1484, X. Ferro Couselo (ed.), A vida e a fala dos devanceiros. Escolma de documentos en galego dos séculos XIII ao XVI. 2 vols. Vigo: Galaxia, page 127:
Iten, mando mays á dita Contança Gonçales, miña muller, a quarta parte da adega dos Vrancos, por quanto eu e ela conpramos a metade da dita adega a Meen Suares Galinato, e mándolle mays a cuba en que teño o viño branco e mays outras duas cubas que son dentro ena dita adega aa maao esquerda, vasyas, que teñen cada una doze moyos de lagar, e mays lle mando una cama de roupa con quatro cabeçaás e un colchón e un almadraque e con suas sabaas e media duzia d'almofadas e con hua manta de picote, e se ouver em casa un par de colchas, que aja ela una delas.- Item, I devise said Constanza González, my wife, a fourth of the wine cellar of Os Brancos, since we both bought a half of it from Men Suarez Galiñato; and I also bequeath a cask in which I have the white wine, and also two other casks that are inside that wine cellar, on the left, empty, each one having twelve modii; and also bequeath to her a clothed bed with four pillows and a mattress and a mat, and with its sheets and half a dozen cushions and a wool blanket, and if there are in house a pair of quilts, she should have one
- Synonym: baleiro
Noun
vacío m (plural vacíos)
- (anatomy, usually in the plural) flank
- Synonyms: illar, illarga
References
- Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “vazio”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “vazi”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
- Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “vacío”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “vacío”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “vacío”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): (Spain) /baˈθio/
- IPA(key): (Latin America, Philippines) /baˈsio/
- Rhymes: -io
- Syllabification: va‧cí‧o
Etymology 1
Inherited from Old Spanish vazio, bazio, from Latin vacīvus, from vacō (“to be empty”).
Adjective
vacío (feminine vacía, masculine plural vacíos, feminine plural vacías)
- empty, vacant
- Synonyms: vacuo, vacante
- Antonym: lleno
Derived terms
Noun
vacío m (plural vacíos)
- vacuum, void
- empty space; gap
- Synonyms: hueco, vacuo
Derived terms
Etymology 2
Verb
vacío
- first-person singular present indicative of vaciar
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