vacuo

• IPA^(key): /ˈva.kwo/, (traditional) /ˈva.ku.o/^[1]
• Rhymes: -akwo, (traditional) -akuo
• Hyphenation: và‧cuo, (traditional) và‧cu‧o

Borrowed from Latin vacuus.

vacuo (feminine vacua, masculine plural vacui, feminine plural vacue) (literary)

1. empty, devoid

   Synonyms: mancante, privo, vuoto

2. (figurative) vacuous, vacant, empty, blank

• vacuamente

• vacuità

vacuo m (plural vacui)

1. an empty space

• vacuo in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

vacuo

1. first-person singular present indicative of vacuare

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈwa.ku.oː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈvaː.ku.o]

Likely a back-formation from vacuus, originally formed as vacō (“to be empty”) + -uus (perfect active participle suffix), later reanalysed as an adjective.

vacuō (present infinitive vacuāre, perfect active vacuāvī, supine vacuātum); first conjugation (transitive)

1. to empty out (a space)
2. to clear (a surface)
3. (Medieval Latin):
   1. (ditransitive) to deprive (something) of (something)
   2. to vacate or leave (somewhere)
   3. to remove or expel (something)
   4. to thwart or frustrate (a plot)
   5. to annul or cancel (something); to make (something) void

¹At least one rare poetic syncopated perfect form is attested.

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

vacuō

1. dative/ablative masculine/neuter singular of vacuus

vacuō

1. dative/ablative singular of vacuum

• “vacuo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “vacuo”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• R. E. Latham, D. R. Howlett, & R. K. Ashdowne, editors (1975–2013), “vacuo”, in Dictionary of Medieval Latin from British Sources‎^[1], London: Oxford University Press for the British Academy, →ISBN, →OCLC

Borrowed from Latin vacuus.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbakwo/ [ˈba.kwo]
• Rhymes: -akwo
• Syllabification: va‧cuo

vacuo (feminine vacua, masculine plural vacuos, feminine plural vacuas)

1. empty; vacant

   Synonyms: vacío, vacante

vacuo m (plural vacuos)

1. empty space, gap

   Synonyms: vacío, hueco

• “vacuo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024