vacío

See also: vacio and vació

Asturian

Adjective

vacío

1. neuter of vacíu

Galician

Etymology

Attested since circa 1300. From Latin vacīvus, from vacō. Compare Portuguese vazio and Spanish vacío.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [baˈθiʊ], (western) [baˈsiʊ]

Adjective

vacío (feminine vacía, masculine plural vacíos, feminine plural vacías)

1. (dated) empty
   • 1484, X. Ferro Couselo (ed.), A vida e a fala dos devanceiros. Escolma de documentos en galego dos séculos XIII ao XVI. 2 vols. Vigo: Galaxia, page 127:

     Iten, mando mays á dita Contança Gonçales, miña muller, a quarta parte da adega dos Vrancos, por quanto eu e ela conpramos a metade da dita adega a Meen Suares Galinato, e mándolle mays a cuba en que teño o viño branco e mays outras duas cubas que son dentro ena dita adega aa maao esquerda, vasyas, que teñen cada una doze moyos de lagar, e mays lle mando una cama de roupa con quatro cabeçaás e un colchón e un almadraque e con suas sabaas e media duzia d'almofadas e con hua manta de picote, e se ouver em casa un par de colchas, que aja ela una delas.

     Item, I devise said Constanza González, my wife, a fourth of the wine cellar of Os Brancos, since we both bought a half of it from Men Suarez Galiñato; and I also bequeath a cask in which I have the white wine, and also two other casks that are inside that wine cellar, on the left, empty, each one having twelve modii; and also bequeath to her a clothed bed with four pillows and a mattress and a mat, and with its sheets and half a dozen cushions and a wool blanket, and if there are in house a pair of quilts, she should have one

   Synonym: baleiro

Noun

vacío m (plural vacíos)

1. (anatomy, usually in the plural) flank

   Synonyms: illar, illarga

References

• “vazio” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
• “vazi” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• “vacío” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “vacío” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “vacío” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /baˈθio/ [baˈθi.o]
• IPA^(key): (Latin America) /baˈsio/ [baˈsi.o]

• Audio (Colombia):

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• Rhymes: -io
• Syllabification: va‧cí‧o

Etymology 1

Inherited from Old Spanish vazio, bazio, from Latin vacīvus, from vacō (“to be empty”).

Adjective

vacío (feminine vacía, masculine plural vacíos, feminine plural vacías)

1. empty, vacant

   Synonyms: vacuo, vacante

   Antonym: lleno

Derived terms

• caloría vacía
• con las manos vacías
• conjunto vacío

 

Noun

vacío m (plural vacíos)

1. vacuum, void
2. empty space; gap

   Synonyms: hueco, vacuo

Derived terms

• al vacío
• dar en vacío
• hacer el vacío
• horror al vacío
• la naturaleza aborrece el vacío
• vacío legal

 

Etymology 2

Verb

vacío

1. first-person singular present indicative of vaciar

Further reading

• “vacío”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014