vanus

Estonian

Noun

vanus (genitive vanuse, partitive vanust)

  1. age

Declension
Inflection of vanus (ÕS type 9/katus, no gradation)
singular plural
nominative vanus vanused
accusative vanuse vanused
genitive vanuse vanuste
partitive vanust vanuseid
illative vanusesse vanustesse
vanuseisse
inessive vanuses vanustes
vanuseis
elative vanusest vanustest
vanuseist
allative vanusele vanustele
vanuseile
adessive vanusel vanustel
vanuseil
ablative vanuselt vanustelt
vanuseilt
translative vanuseks vanusteks
vanuseiks
terminative vanuseni vanusteni
essive vanusena vanustena
abessive vanuseta vanusteta
comitative vanusega vanustega

Derived terms

Further reading

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

  1. 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.)
  2. unsubstantial
  3. (figuratively) groundless, baseless, meaningless, pointless
  4. ostentatious, boastful
  5. deceptive, untrustworthy

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

Number Singular Plural
Case / Gender Masculine Feminine Neuter Masculine Feminine Neuter
Nominative vānus vāna vānum vānī vānae vāna
Genitive vānī vānae vānī vānōrum vānārum vānōrum
Dative vānō vānō vānīs
Accusative vānum vānam vānum vānōs vānās vāna
Ablative vānō vānā vānō vānīs
Vocative vāne vāna vānum vānī vānae vāna

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
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