vanter
French
verb
Definitions
- to praise, to vaunt
- (reflexive) to boast, brag
Etymology
Inherited from Old French vanter inherited from Latin vānitāre, vānus (empty, boastful, vain).
Origin
Latin
vānus
Gloss
empty, boastful, vain
Concept
Semantic Field
Quantity
Ontological Category
Property
Emoji
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- *exvānĕre Latin
- vanesco Latin
- vaniloquium Latin
- vaniloquus Latin
- vanitas Latin
- vānitāre Latin
- vānitās Latin
- vānus Latin
- vano Italian
- vantamento Italian
- vantare Italian
- vantatore Italian
- vantazione Italian
- vantard French
- vantardise French
- vano Spanish, Castilian
- *h₁weh₂- Proto-Indo-European
- devanear Portuguese
- avanter Old French
- vain Old French
- vanteor Old French
- vanter Old French
- vana Esperanto
- va Catalan, Valencian
- van Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- vão Old Portuguese
- vãnãt Aromanian
- vaunter xno
- vanté Louisiana Creole French
- vanta Antillean Creole