vanus
Latin
adj
Definitions
- vain, empty, vacant, void
- unsubstantial
- (figuratively) groundless, baseless, meaningless, pointless
- ostentatious, boastful
- deceptive, untrustworthy
Etymology
Derived from Proto-Indo-European *h₁weh₂- (empty, be lacking, be empty, abandon, leave, wasted, lack, deserted), *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
- diswant English
- evanesce English
- miswant English
- vaniloquence English
- wane English
- wanest English
- waneth English
- waniand English
- waning English
- want English
- wantable English
- wantcha English
- wanted English
- wanter English
- wantest English
- wanteth English
- wantful English
- wanting English
- wantish English
- wantless English
- wantsome English
- wantwit English
- wany English
- whaddayawant English
- evanescere Latin
- evanesco, evanescere Latin
- vacans Latin
- vacantia Latin
- vacuitās Latin
- vacuus Latin
- vacātus Latin
- vastus Latin
- vocitus Latin
- vānitas Latin
- vānus Latin
- ēvānēscēns Latin
- *h₁uh₂nós Proto-Indo-European
- *h₁weh₂- Proto-Indo-European
- *h₂weh₁yu- Proto-Indo-European
- *un- Proto-Indo-European
- *wāno- Proto-Indo-European
- *wanatōną Proto-Germanic
- *wanaz Proto-Germanic
- *wanōną Proto-Germanic
- *wōstinī Proto-Germanic
- wan- Old English
- wana Old English
- wēstiġ Old English
- ऊन Sanskrit
- wanten Middle English
- van- Old Norse
- vanbúinn Old Norse
- vanr Old Norse
- पौन Hindi
- पौना Hindi
- ունայնություն Armenian
- ունայն Old Armenian
- ունայնութիւն Old Armenian
- fás Old Irish
- vonoj Albanian
- vonë Albanian
- 𐍅𐌰𐌽𐍃 Gothic
- *HuHnás Proto-Indo-Iranian
- wan- Old Saxon
- *wakos Proto-Italic
- *wōstī Frankish
- *HuHnás Proto-Indo-Aryan
- 𑀊𑀡 Sauraseni Prakrit
- *wānti Proto-Albanian
- उणे Konkani
- wani Sranan Tongo
- wantem Bislama
- wan Nigerian Pidgin
- wantchee Chinese Pidgin English