Estonian

Noun

vanus ‎(genitive [please provide], partitive [please provide])

1. age

Declension

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *h₁weh₂- ‎(“empty”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈwaː.nus/, [ˈwaː.nʊs]

Adjective

vānus m ‎(feminine vāna, neuter vānum); first/second declension

1. vain, empty, vacant, void
   • 4th century, St Jerome, Vulgate, 2 Paralipomenon 32:15

     non vos ergo decipiat Ezechias nec vana persuasione deludat neque credatis ei si enim nullus potuit deus cunctarum gentium atque regnorum liberare populum suum de manu mea et de manu patrum meorum consequenter nec Deus vester poterit eruere vos de hac manu (Therefore let not Ezechias deceive you, nor delude you with a vain persuasion, and do not believe him. For if no god of all the nations and kingdoms, could deliver his people out of my hand, and out of the hand of my fathers, consequently neither shall your God be able to deliver you out of my hand.)

2. unsubstantial
3. (figuratively) groundless, baseless, meaningless
4. ostentatious, boastful
5. deceptive, untrustworthy

Inflection

First/second declension.

• superlative: vānissimus

Related terms

• vānēscō
• vānitās
• vānum

Descendants

References

• vanus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• vanus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• VANUS in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “vanus”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.