The corpus record — Latin

vacuo

vacuo · v. a

to make empty

Generated live from the audited Latin corpus — every figure on this page is a database query, not prose from memory.

Where it lives

Gordiani Tres 1 · 1.8/10k
Achilleis 1 · 1.39/10k
Carmina 2 · 0.89/10k
Epistulae, Books VIII-IX 1 · 0.79/10k
Silvae 1 · 0.4/10k
De Rerum Natura 1 · 0.21/10k
Res Rustica, Books I-IX 1 · 0.13/10k
Punica 1 · 0.13/10k

What it meant

văcŭo — Lewis & Short

văcŭo, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a.vacuus,

I to make empty or void; to empty, clear, free (mostly post-Aug.): locus inanitus ac vacuatus, Lucr. 6, 1023: sulcum, Col. 3, 13, 10: dolia a mercatoribus vacuata, id. 12, 50, 14: Elysium nemus, Mart. 11, 5, 6: saecula putr: penso, Stat. Th. 3, 642: sanguine vacuatus, Aur. Vict. Epit. 43.

In the wild

vacuata Sidonius Apollinaris, Carmina 2.102
vacuat Sidonius Apollinaris, Carmina 7.95
vacuatum Historia Augusta, Gordiani Tres 24
vacuatus Lucretius, De Rerum Natura 6.1025
vacuatis Columella, Res Rustica, Books I-IX 9.14.17
vacuantur Statius, Achilleis 1.419

6 of 9 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.