vacatio

From vacō (“to be free”) + -tiō.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [waˈkaː.ti.oː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [vaˈkat.t͡si.o]

vacātiō f (genitive vacātiōnis); third declension

1. freedom, exemption, immunity (from service)
2. privilege

Third-declension noun.

• English: vacation
• French: vacation
• Hungarian: vakáció
• Italian: vacazione
• Portuguese: vacação
• Romanian: vacație
• Spanish: vacación

• “vacatio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “vacatio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "vacatio", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “vacatio”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to be excused military duty: militiae vacationem habere