The corpus record — Latin

vanities

vanities · f

emptiness

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Where it lives

Res Gestae 1 · 0.08/10k

What it meant

vānĭtĭes — Lewis & Short

vānĭtĭes, ēï, f.id.,

I emptiness, nullity, folly (late Lat.): plebeia, Amm. 29, 1, 13.—

II Esp., vanity, vainglory: ad extollendam ejus vanitiem sidera quoque, si jussisset, exhiberi posse promittens, Amm. 29, 1, 11.

In the wild

vanities Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 21.1.13

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.