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vaco

See also: vacò

Catalan edit

Verb edit

vaco

  1. first-person singular present indicative of vacar

Italian edit

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /ˈva.ko/
  • Rhymes: -ako
  • Hyphenation: và‧co

Verb edit

vaco

  1. first-person singular present indicative of vacare

Anagrams edit

Latin edit

Alternative forms edit

  • voco (in mss. of Plautus)

Etymology edit

From Proto-Italic *wakos, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁weh₂- (“to lack; empty”).[1] The form in vo- possibly from vocīvus, shifted in pretonic syllable.

Pronunciation edit

Verb edit

vacō (present infinitive vacāre, perfect active vacāvī, supine vacātum); first conjugation

  1. to be empty, void
  2. to be unoccupied, vacant
  3. to be idle, at leisure [+dative]
    Synonyms: langueō, dēsideō, iaceō, cessō, resideō, sileō, conquiēscō
    Philosophiae vacat.
    He has leisure for philosophy.
  4. to be free to attend, have time, not be under other obligation

Conjugation edit

   Conjugation of vacō (first conjugation)
indicative singular plural
first second third first second third
active present vacō vacās vacat vacāmus vacātis vacant
imperfect vacābam vacābās vacābat vacābāmus vacābātis vacābant
future vacābō vacābis vacābit vacābimus vacābitis vacābunt
perfect vacāvī vacāvistī,
vacāstī1 		vacāvit,
vacāt1 		vacāvimus,
vacāmus1 		vacāvistis,
vacāstis1 		vacāvērunt,
vacāvēre,
vacārunt1
pluperfect vacāveram,
vacāram1 		vacāverās,
vacārās1 		vacāverat,
vacārat1 		vacāverāmus,
vacārāmus1 		vacāverātis,
vacārātis1 		vacāverant,
vacārant1
future perfect vacāverō,
vacārō1 		vacāveris,
vacāris1 		vacāverit,
vacārit1 		vacāverimus,
vacārimus1 		vacāveritis,
vacāritis1 		vacāverint,
vacārint1
passive present vacor vacāris,
vacāre 		vacātur vacāmur vacāminī vacantur
imperfect vacābar vacābāris,
vacābāre 		vacābātur vacābāmur vacābāminī vacābantur
future vacābor vacāberis,
vacābere 		vacābitur vacābimur vacābiminī vacābuntur
perfect vacātus + present active indicative of sum
pluperfect vacātus + imperfect active indicative of sum
future perfect vacātus + future active indicative of sum
subjunctive singular plural
first second third first second third
active present vacem vacēs vacet vacēmus vacētis vacent
imperfect vacārem vacārēs vacāret vacārēmus vacārētis vacārent
perfect vacāverim,
vacārim1 		vacāverīs,
vacārīs1 		vacāverit,
vacārit1 		vacāverīmus,
vacārīmus1 		vacāverītis,
vacārītis1 		vacāverint,
vacārint1
pluperfect vacāvissem,
vacāssem1 		vacāvissēs,
vacāssēs1 		vacāvisset,
vacāsset1 		vacāvissēmus,
vacāssēmus1 		vacāvissētis,
vacāssētis1 		vacāvissent,
vacāssent1
passive present vacer vacēris,
vacēre 		vacētur vacēmur vacēminī vacentur
imperfect vacārer vacārēris,
vacārēre 		vacārētur vacārēmur vacārēminī vacārentur
perfect vacātus + present active subjunctive of sum
pluperfect vacātus + imperfect active subjunctive of sum
imperative singular plural
first second third first second third
active present — vacā — — vacāte —
future — vacātō vacātō — vacātōte vacantō
passive present — vacāre — — vacāminī —
future — vacātor vacātor — — vacantor
non-finite forms active passive
present perfect future present perfect future
infinitives vacāre vacāvisse,
vacāsse1 		vacātūrum esse vacārī vacātum esse vacātum īrī
participles vacāns — vacātūrus — vacātus vacandus
verbal nouns gerund supine
genitive dative accusative ablative accusative ablative
vacandī vacandō vacandum vacandō vacātum vacātū

1At least one rare poetic syncopated perfect form is attested.

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References edit

  • De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “vacō”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 649
  • Weiss, Michael L. (2009) Outline of the Historical and Comparative Grammar of Latin‎[1], Ann Arbor: Beech Stave Press, →ISBN, page 141
  1. ^ Pokorny 141, pages 345-346

Further reading edit

  • “vaco”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “vaco”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • vaco 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)
  • vaco in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎[2], London: Macmillan and Co.
    • to be free from business: negotiis vacare
    • to be free from blame: culpa carere, vacare

Neapolitan edit

Alternative forms edit

Etymology edit

From the older (and still regionally used) vao, from Latin vādō.

Pronunciation edit

Verb edit

vaco

  1. first-person singular present indicative of jí

References edit

  • AIS: Sprach- und Sachatlas Italiens und der Südschweiz [Linguistic and Ethnographic Atlas of Italy and Southern Switzerland] – map 822: “vo a comprare” – on navigais-web.pd.istc.cnr.it

Portuguese edit

Verb edit

vaco

  1. first-person singular present indicative of vacar

Spanish edit

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /ˈbako/ [ˈba.ko]
  • Rhymes: -ako
  • Syllabification: va‧co

Etymology 1 edit

Borrowed from Latin vacuus.

Adjective edit

vaco (feminine vaca, masculine plural vacos, feminine plural vacas)


  1. (formal) vacant; blank
Derived terms edit

Etymology 2 edit

Masculine variant of vaca (“cow”).

Noun edit

vaco m (plural vacos)

  1. (colloquial) bull

Etymology 3 edit

Verb edit

vaco

  1. first-person singular present indicative of vacar

Further reading edit

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