Italian

Verb

vaco

1. first-person singular present indicative of vacare

Anagrams

• cavo, cavò, cova, voca

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *h₁weh₂- ‎(“to lack; empty”).^[1]

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈwa.koː/
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈva.ko/, [ˈvaː.ko]

Verb

vacō ‎(present infinitive vacāre, perfect active vacāvī, supine vacātum); first conjugation

1. I am empty, void
2. I am unoccupied, vacant
3. I am idle, at leisure
4. I am free to attend, have time, am not under other obligation

Inflection

Derived terms

• vacāns
• vacantia
• vacīvus
• vacuus

Related terms

• vacuitās
• vacuō

Descendants

• English: vacate
• French: vaquer
• Italian: vacare
• Portuguese: vagar, vacar
• Spanish: vagar

References

• vaco in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• vaco in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• VACO in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “vaco”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to be free from business: negotiis vacare
    
  • to be free from blame: culpa carere, vacare
    

1. ↑ Pokorny 141, pages 345-346