vacans

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Latin

Etymology

Present active participle of vacō

Participle

vacāns (genitive vacantis); third-declension one-termination participle

  1. emptying
  2. vacating
  3. idling

Declension

Third-declension participle.

singular plural
masc./fem. neuter masc./fem. neuter
nominative vacāns vacantēs vacantia
genitive vacantis vacantium
dative vacantī vacantibus
accusative vacantem vacāns vacantēs
vacantīs 		vacantia
ablative vacante
vacantī1 		vacantibus
vocative vacāns vacantēs vacantia

1When used purely as an adjective.

References

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