vanité
French
noun
Definitions
- futility, pointlessness
- vanity (excessive pride)
- vanitas
Etymology
Inherited from Middle French vanité borrowed from Latin vānitātem, vānitas, vanitas.
Origin
Latin
vānitātem, vānitas, vanitas
Gloss
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- vānitātem, vānitas, vanitas Latin
- vanità Italian
- vaniteusement French
- vaniteux French
- vanidad Spanish, Castilian
- vanitate Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- vanitos Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- vanité Middle French
- vãnãtati Aromanian
- vanidá Asturian