The corpus record — Latin

vacuitas

vacuitas · f

empty space

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Where it lives

de Finibus Bonorum et Malorum 28 · 5.6/10k
Tusculanae Disputationes 4 · 0.71/10k
De Architectura 3 · 0.52/10k
De Officiis 1 · 0.3/10k
Epistulae ad Familiares 1 · 0.09/10k

What it meant

văcŭĭtas — Lewis & Short

văcŭĭtas, ātis, f.id..

I Lit., concr., empty space, a vacancy, vacuity: interveniorum vacuitates, Vitr. 2, 7.—

II Transf., a being without, a freedom, absence, exemption from any thing (class.; cf. vacatio).

1 With gen.: liberatio et vacuitas omnis molestiae, Cic. Fin. 1, 11, 37: doloris, id. ib. 2, 5, 16; 2, 6, 18; 2, 11, 35; 2, 12, 37: aegritudinis, id. Tusc. 5, 14, 42.—

2 With ab and abl.: vacuitas ab angoribus, Cic. Off. 1, 21, 73.—

B Esp., a vacancy in an office: consulum, Brut. ap. Cic. Fam. 11, 10, 2.

In the wild

vacuitate Cicero, de Finibus Bonorum et Malorum 1.39
vacuitate Cicero, de Finibus Bonorum et Malorum 2.38
vacuitate Cicero, de Finibus Bonorum et Malorum 5.21
vacuitatem Cicero, de Finibus Bonorum et Malorum 3.30
vacuitatem Cicero, de Finibus Bonorum et Malorum 5.18
vacuitatem Cicero, de Finibus Bonorum et Malorum 2.18

6 of 37 attestations shown.

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.

Latin text and lemmatization derived from the Perseus Digital Library (canonical-latinLit), CC BY-SA 4.0. Lewis & Short (public domain) via Perseus. This derived data is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 license.