vanitas

From Latin vanitas. Doublet of vanity.

• IPA^(key): /ˈvæn.ɪˌtɑs/

vanitas (plural vanitases)

1. (painting) A type of still life painting, symbolic of mortality, characteristic of Dutch painting of the 16th and 17th centuries.
   • 2009 March 6, Holland Cotter, “Change and Permanence, Captured by Cameras”, in New York Times‎^[1]:

     In her straight-ahead photographs of storefronts, an arrangement of shoes or shrink-wrapped furniture becomes a vanitas still life.

• memento mori

•   vanitas on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• Ivatans

vānus +‎ -tās.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈu̯aː.ni.taːs/, [ˈu̯äːnɪt̪äːs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈva.ni.tas/, [ˈväːnit̪äs]

vānitās f (genitive vānitātis); third declension

1. emptiness, nothingness

   vanitas vanitatum ― vanity of vanities

2. falsity, falsehood, deception, untruth, untrustworthiness, fickleness
3. vanity, vainglory

Third-declension noun.

• vānitāre

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