va
Catalan
adj
Definitions
- vain having no real substance
- vain effecting no real purpose
Etymology
Inherited from Latin vānus (empty, boastful, vain) derived from Proto-Indo-European *h₁weh₂- (empty, be lacking, be empty, abandon, leave, wasted, lack, deserted).
Origin
Proto-Indo-European
*h₁weh₂-
Gloss
empty, be lacking, be empty, abandon, leave, wasted, lack, deserted
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Semantic Field
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Ontological Category
Property
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Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- devastate English
- evanesce English
- *exvānĕre Latin
- evanescere Latin
- evanesco, evanescere Latin
- vacans Latin
- vacantia Latin
- vacuitās Latin
- vacuus Latin
- vacātus Latin
- vanesco Latin
- vaniloquium Latin
- vaniloquus Latin
- vanitas Latin
- vanus Latin
- vastus Latin
- vocitus Latin
- vānitas Latin
- vānitāre Latin
- vānus Latin
- ēvānēscēns Latin
- vano Italian
- vano Spanish, Castilian
- *h₁uh₂nós Proto-Indo-European
- *h₁weh₂- Proto-Indo-European
- *h₂weh₁yu- Proto-Indo-European
- devanear Portuguese
- *wanatōną Proto-Germanic
- *wanaz Proto-Germanic
- *wanōną Proto-Germanic
- *wōstinī Proto-Germanic
- wēstiġ Old English
- vanbúinn Old Norse
- vain Old French
- vanter Old French
- vana Esperanto
- vanament Catalan, Valencian
- van Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- fás Old Irish
- vão Old Portuguese
- vãnãt Aromanian
- *wakos Proto-Italic
- *wōstī Frankish