vacans

Latin

Etymology

Present active participle of vacō

Participle

vacāns (genitive vacantis); third-declension one-termination participle

1. emptying
2. vacating
3. idling

Declension

Third-declension participle.

Number	Singular			Plural
Case / Gender	Masc./Fem.	Neuter		Masc./Fem.	Neuter
Nominative	vacāns			vacantēs	vacantia
Genitive	vacantis			vacantium
Dative	vacantī			vacantibus
Accusative	vacantem	vacāns		vacantēs vacantīs	vacantia
Ablative	vacante vacantī1			vacantibus
Vocative	vacāns			vacantēs	vacantia

¹When used purely as an adjective.

References

• “vacans”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “vacans”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• vacans 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)
• vacans in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.