# vaco
## Catalan
### Verb

vaco
* first-person singular present indicative of vacar

## Italian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈva.ko/
* Rhymes: -ako
* Hyphenation: và‧co

### Verb

vaco
* first-person singular present indicative of vacare

### Anagrams

* cavo, cavò, cova, voca

## Latin
### Alternative forms

* voco (in mss. of Plautus)

### Etymology

From Proto-Italic *wakos, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁weh₂- (“to lack; empty”). The form in vo- possibly from vocīvus, shifted in pretonic syllable.

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈu̯a.koː/, [ˈu̯äkoː]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈva.ko/, [ˈväːko]

### Verb

vacō (present infinitive vacāre, perfect active vacāvī, supine vacātum); first conjugation
* to be empty, void
* to be unoccupied, vacant
* to be idle, at leisure [with dative]
    Synonyms: langueō, dēsideō, iaceō, cessō, resideō, sileō, conquiēscō
    Philosophiae vacat.He has leisure for philosophy.
* to be free to attend, have time, not be under other obligation

#### Conjugation

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

#### Derived terms

* supervacāneus
* vacāns
* vacantia
* vocīvus, vacīvus
* Vacūna
* vacuus, vocuus

#### Related terms

* vacuitās
* vacuō

#### Descendants

* Aromanian: dizvoc
* ⇒ Romanian: dehoca, devoca; >? desfăca
* Sardinian: bogare, ⇒ debogada
* Sicilian: vacari
* Neapolitan: vacare (Calabrian)
* Italian: vacare
* Occitan: bagà (Gascon)
* ⇒ Occitan: desboucà
* Old French: voiier
* Catalan: vagar
* Galician: vagar
* Portuguese: vagar
* Spanish: vacar
* → English: vacate
* → Esperanto: vaki
* → French: vaquer
* → Portuguese: vacar

### References

* De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “vacō”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 649
* Weiss, Michael L. (2009) Outline of the Historical and Comparative Grammar of Latin‎, Ann Arbor: Beech Stave Press, →ISBN, page 141
* ↑ Pokorny 141, pages 345-346

### Further reading

* “vaco”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* “vaco”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
* vaco in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
* vaco in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
* Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co. to be free from business: negotiis vacare to be free from blame: culpa carere, vacare

## Neapolitan
### Alternative forms

* vao

### Etymology

From the older (and still regionally used) vao, from Latin vādō.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈvake/, [ˈvɑː.kə]
* Rhymes: -akə

### Verb

vaco
* first-person singular present indicative of jí

### References

* AIS: Sprach- und Sachatlas Italiens und der Südschweiz [Linguistic and Ethnographic Atlas of Italy and Southern Switzerland] – map 822: “vo a comprare” – on navigais-web.pd.istc.cnr.it

## Pali
### Alternative forms

* 𑀯𑀘𑁄 (Brahmi script)
* वचो (Devanagari script)
* ৰচো (Bengali script)
* වචො (Sinhalese script)
* ဝစော or ဝၸေႃ (Burmese script)
* วโจ or วะโจ (Thai script)
* ᩅᨧᩮᩣ (Tai Tham script)
* ວໂຈ or ວະໂຈ (Lao script)
* វចោ (Khmer script)
* 𑅇𑄌𑄮 (Chakma script)

### Noun

vaco
* nominative/vocative/accusative singular of vacas (“speech”)

## Portuguese
### Verb

vaco
* first-person singular present indicative of vacar

## Spanish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈbako/ [ˈba.ko]
* Rhymes: -ako
* Syllabification: va‧co

### Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin vacuus.

#### Adjective

vaco (feminine vaca, masculine plural vacos, feminine plural vacas)
* (formal) vacant; blank

##### Derived terms

* pájaro vaco

### Etymology 2

Masculine variant of vaca (“cow”).

#### Noun

vaco m (plural vacos)
* (colloquial) bull

### Etymology 3
#### Verb

vaco
* first-person singular present indicative of vacar

### Further reading

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