vanitas
English
Etymology
From Latin vānitās. Doublet of vanity.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈvæn.ɪˌtɑs/
Noun
vanitas (plural vanitases)
- (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.
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Latin
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Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈwaː.nɪ.taːs]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈvaː.ni.tas]
Noun
vānitās f (genitive vānitātis); third declension
- emptiness, nothingness
- vanitas vanitatum ― vanity of vanities
- falsity, falsehood, deception, untruth, untrustworthiness, fickleness
- vanity, vainglory
Declension
Third-declension noun.
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | vānitās | vānitātēs |
| genitive | vānitātis | vānitātum |
| dative | vānitātī | vānitātibus |
| accusative | vānitātem | vānitātēs |
| ablative | vānitāte | vānitātibus |
| vocative | vānitās | vānitātēs |
Derived terms
Descendants
- ⇒? Aromanian: vãnãtati
- → Asturian: vanidá (learned)
- → Catalan: vanitat (learned)
- → English: vanitas (learned)
- Old Franco-Provençal: vanitá
- Franco-Provençal: vanitá
- → Old French: vanité (learned)
- → Friulian: vanitât (learned)
- → Italian: vanità (learned)
- → Maltese: vanità
- → Piedmontese: vanità (learned)
- Old Galician-Portuguese: vãydade, vãidade
- → Portuguese: vanidade (learned)
- Romanian: vântă, vintă
- → Romanian: vanitate (learned)
- Old Spanish: vanedad
- Spanish: vanedad
- → Spanish: vanidad (learned)
References
- “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, 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.