vacuus

• vaquus (Vulgar or Late Latin, Appendix Probi)

From Proto-Italic *wakowos. Equivalent to vacō (“I am empty, void”) +‎ -uus (“adjective-forming suffix”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈu̯a.ku.us/, [ˈu̯äkuʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈva.ku.us/, [ˈväːkuːs]

vacuus (feminine vacua, neuter vacuum); first/second-declension adjective

1. empty, vacant, unoccupied

   Synonyms: vānus, inānis

   Antonyms: plēnus, refertus, implētus, explētus, complētus, frequēns

   Fēmina dīxit pōculum vacuum esse.

   The woman said that the cup was empty.

   • 405 CE, Jerome, Vulgate Genesis.1.2:

     Terra autem erat inānis et vacua, et tenebrae erant super faciem abyssī et spīritus Deī ferēbātur super aquās.

     And the earth was void and empty, and darkness was upon the face of the deep; and the spirit of God moved over the waters.

2. devoid or free of, without

   Synonyms: carēns, expers, viduus

   Antonyms: abundāns, cōpiōsus, cumulātus, largus, ūber, fēcundus

3. (of time) free, unoccupied
4. (of women) free, unmarried, single

   Synonym: caelebs

First/second-declension adjective.

• vacāns
• vacanter

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