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Estonian
Etymology
From Proto-Finnic *vanhuc.
Noun
vanus (genitive vanuse, partitive vanust)
- age
Declension
Derived terms
Further reading
- “vanus”, in Eesti keele põhisõnavara sõnastik [Dictionary of Estonian Basic Vocabulary] (in Estonian) (online version, not updated), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2014
- “vanus”, in Eesti keele seletav sõnaraamat [Descriptive Dictionary of the Estonian Language] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2009
- “vanus”, in [ÕS] Eesti õigekeelsussõnaraamat ÕS 2018 [Estonian Spelling Dictionary] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2018, →ISBN
- vanus in Sõnaveeb (Eesti Keele Instituut)
Latin
Etymology
From Proto-Italic *wānos, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁weh₂- (“empty, leave, abandon, give out”). Cognate with Proto-Germanic *wanaz, Sanskrit ऊन (ūná).
Pronunciation
Adjective
vānus (feminine vāna, neuter vānum, superlative vānissimus); first/second-declension adjective
- vain, empty, vacant, void
- Synonyms: vacuus, inānis, irritus
- Antonyms: plenus, refertus, opīmus, implētus, explētus, complētus, frequens
- 4th century, St Jerome, Vulgate, 2 Paralipomenon 32:15
non vos ergo decipiat Ezechias nec vana persuasione deludat neque credatis ei si enim nullus potuit deus cunctarum gentium atque regnorum liberare populum suum de manu mea et de manu patrum meorum consequenter nec Deus vester poterit eruere vos de hac manu (Therefore let not Ezechias deceive you, nor delude you with a vain persuasion, and do not believe him. For if no god of all the nations and kingdoms, could deliver his people out of my hand, and out of the hand of my fathers, consequently neither shall your God be able to deliver you out of my hand.)- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- unsubstantial
- (figuratively) groundless, baseless, meaningless, pointless, worthless, ineffectual, mindless, empty, idle, without foundation
29 BCE – 19 BCE,
Virgil,
Aeneid 2.287:
- “Ille nihil, nec mē quaerentem vāna morātur, .”
- “ that, nothing, nor does my idle inquiry delay him, .”
- ostentatious, boastful
- deceptive, untrustworthy
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
Related terms
Descendants
References
- “vanus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “vanus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- vanus 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)
- vanus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.