vast
English
/vɑːst/, /væst/
adj
Definitions
- Very large or wide (literally or figuratively).
- Very great in size, amount, degree, intensity, or especially extent.
- (obsolete) Waste; desert; desolate; lonely.
Etymology
Derived from Middle French vaste derived from Latin vastus (vast, wide, empty, immense, monstrous, huge, enormous, void) root 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
Concept
Semantic Field
Quantity
Ontological Category
Property
Emoji
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- devastate English
- evanesce English
- ultravast English
- vasten English
- vastitude English
- vastity English
- vastly English
- vastness English
- vastus English
- evanescere Latin
- evanesco, evanescere Latin
- vacans Latin
- vacantia Latin
- vacuitās Latin
- vacuus Latin
- vacātus Latin
- vanus Latin
- vastus Latin
- vocitus Latin
- vānitas Latin
- vānus Latin
- ēvānēscēns Latin
- vasto Italian
- vaste French
- vastement French
- vasto Spanish, Castilian
- *h₁uh₂nós Proto-Indo-European
- *h₁weh₂- Proto-Indo-European
- *h₂weh₁yu- Proto-Indo-European
- vasto Portuguese
- *wanatōną Proto-Germanic
- *wanaz Proto-Germanic
- *wanōną Proto-Germanic
- *wōstinī Proto-Germanic
- wēstiġ Old English
- vanbúinn Old Norse
- vasta Esperanto
- vasto Galician
- fás Old Irish
- vaste Middle French
- vastité Middle French
- *wakos Proto-Italic
- *wōstī Frankish