The corpus record — Latin

vanitudo

vanitudo · f

emptiness

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Where it lives

Captivi 1 · 1.16/10k

What it meant

vānĭtūdo — Lewis & Short

vānĭtūdo, ĭnis, f.id.,

I emptiness, nothingness, vainglory, vanity (ante-class.): ne turpasse vanitudine aetatem suam, Pac. ap. Non. 184, 7: vera vanitudine convincere, by empty, lying talk, Plaut. Capt. 3, 4, 37.

In the wild

vanitudine Plautus, Captivi 3.4

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.