vacantia

Interlingua

Etymology

Cf. Dutch vakantie.

Noun

vacantia (plural vacantias)

1. vacation

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /u̯aˈkan.ti.a/, [u̯äˈkän̪t̪iä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /vaˈkan.t͡si.a/, [väˈkänt̪͡s̪iä]

Etymology 1

Derived from the vacant- oblique stem of vacāns +‎ -ia.

Noun

vacantia f (genitive vacantiae); first declension

1. leisure

   Synonym: otium

2. An empty place.

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	vacantia	vacantiae
Genitive	vacantiae	vacantiārum
Dative	vacantiae	vacantiīs
Accusative	vacantiam	vacantiās
Ablative	vacantiā	vacantiīs
Vocative	vacantia	vacantiae

Descendants

• Old Occitan:
  • Catalan: vacança
• Piedmontese: vacansa
• Venetian: vacansa
• → Dutch: vakantie
• → Old French:
  • French: vacance
    • → Alemannic German: Vakanz
    • → German: Vakanz
    • → Italian: vacanza
      • → Ladino: vakansas
      • → Romanian: vacanță
    • → Luxembourgish: Vakanz
• → Portuguese: vacância
• → Sardinian: vacàntzia
• → Spanish: vacancia

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Participle

vacantia

1. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter plural of vacāns

References

• vacantia in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)