vacantia

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Interlingua

Etymology

Cf. Dutch vakantie.

Noun

vacantia (plural vacantias)

vacation

Latin

Pronunciation

(Classical) IPA^(key): /u̯aˈkan.ti.a/,
(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /vaˈkan.t͡si.a/,

Etymology 1

Derived from the vacant- oblique stem of vacāns +‎ -ia.

Noun

vacantia f (genitive vacantiae); first declension

leisure
Synonym: otium
An empty place.

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	vacantia	vacantiae
Genitive	vacantiae	vacantiārum
Dative	vacantiae	vacantiīs
Accusative	vacantiam	vacantiās
Ablative	vacantiā	vacantiīs
Vocative	vacantia	vacantiae

Descendants

Old Occitan:
- Catalan: vacança
Piedmontese: vacansa
Venetian: vacansa
→ Dutch: vakantie
→ Old French:
- French: vacance
  - → Alemannic German: Vakanz
  - → German: Vakanz
  - → Italian: vacanza
    - → Ladino: vakansas
    - → Romanian: vacanță
  - → Luxembourgish: Vakanz
→ Portuguese: vacância
→ Sardinian: vacàntzia
→ Spanish: vacancia

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Participle

vacantia

nominative/accusative/vocative neuter plural of vacāns

References

vacantia 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)

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