vacantia

Interlingua

Etymology

Cf. Dutch vakantie.

Noun

vacantia (plural vacantias)

vacation

Latin

Pronunciation

(Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [waˈkan.ti.a]
(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [vaˈkan.t̪͡s̪i.a]

Etymology 1

Participle

vacantia

nominative/accusative/vocative neuter plural of vacāns

Noun

vacantia n pl (genitive vacantium); third declension

Declension

Third-declension noun (neuter, pure i-stem), plural only.

	plural
nominative	vacantia
genitive	vacantium
dative	vacantibus
accusative	vacantia
ablative	vacantibus
vocative	vacantia

Etymology 2

From vacāns +‎ -ia. Not attested until the Medieval period.

Noun

vacantia f (genitive vacantiae); first declension (Medieval Latin)

free time; leisure
a vacancy
the annual income of a vacant ecclesiastical benefice
Synonyms: vacāta, annāta

Declension

First-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	vacantia	vacantiae
genitive	vacantiae	vacantiārum
dative	vacantiae	vacantiīs
accusative	vacantiam	vacantiās
ablative	vacantiā	vacantiīs
vocative	vacantia	vacantiae

Descendants

Old Occitan:
- Catalan: vacança
Piedmontese: vacansa
Venetan: vacansa
→ Dutch: vakantie, vacantie (dated, superseded)
- Afrikaans: vakansie
- → Aukan: fakansi
- → Indonesian: vakansi
- → Saramaccan: fakansi
- → Sranan Tongo: fakansi
  - → Caribbean Javanese: fakansi
→ Old French:
- French: vacance
  - → Alemannic German: Vakanz
  - → German: Vakanz
  - → Italian: vacanza
    - → Ladino: vakansas
    - → Romanian: vacanță
  - → Luxembourgish: Vakanz
→ Portuguese: vacância
→ Sardinian: vacàntzia
→ Spanish: vacancia

References

R. E. Latham, D. R. Howlett, & R. K. Ashdowne, editors (1975–2013), “vacantia”, in Dictionary of Medieval Latin from British Sources‎^[1], London: Oxford University Press for the British Academy, →ISBN, →OCLC
"vacantia", 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)