vanitas
Latin
noun
Definitions
- emptiness, nothingness
- falsity, falsehood, deception, untruth, untrustworthiness, fickleness
- vanity, vainglory
Etymology
Affix from Latin 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
- vānitāre Latin
- vānus Latin
- vano Italian
- bor Dutch, Flemish
- la Dutch, Flemish
- nl Dutch, Flemish
- stilleven Dutch, Flemish
- vanitas Dutch, Flemish
- vanitasstilleven Dutch, Flemish
- vano Spanish, Castilian
- *h₁weh₂- Proto-Indo-European
- devanear Portuguese
- vain Old French
- vanter Old French
- vana Esperanto
- va Catalan, Valencian
- van Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- vão Old Portuguese
- vãnãt Aromanian