# vane
## English
### Etymology

From Middle English vane, Southern Middle English variant of fane, from Old English fana (“cloth, banner, flag”), from Proto-West Germanic *fanō, from Proto-Germanic *fanô, from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂n- (“something woven; weave; tissue; fabric; cloth”).
Cognate with Saterland Frisian Foone (“flag, banner”), Dutch vaan (“banner, flag”), German Low German Fahn (“flag”), German Fahne. Doublet of obsolete fane (“weathercock; banner”) and fanon.

### Pronunciation

* (UK, US) IPA: /veɪn/
** Audio (Southern England):(file)
* Rhymes: -eɪn
* Homophones: vain, vein

### Noun

vane (plural vanes)
* A weather vane.
* Any of several usually relatively thin, rigid, flat, or sometimes curved surfaces radially mounted along an axis, as a blade in a turbine or a sail on a windmill, that is turned by or used to turn a fluid.
* (ornithology) The flattened, web-like part of a feather, consisting of a series of barbs on either side of the shaft.
    Synonym: vexillum
    Meronym: barb
* (navigation) A sight on a sextant or compass.
* (weaponry) One of the metal guidance or stabilizing fins attached to the tail of a bomb or other missile.
    Synonym: fin

#### Derived terms

* Cooper vane
* wind vane

#### Translations
### Further reading

* weather vane on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

### Anagrams

* nave, e-van, Neva, neva, Nave, Evan, Aven, aven, Vena, vena

## Albanian
### Noun

vane
* indefinite dative/ablative singular of vanë

## Czech
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈvanɛ]

### Etymology 1
#### Noun

vane m
* vocative singular of van

### Etymology 2
#### Verb

vane
* third-person singular present of vanout

## Danish
### Etymology

From Old Norse vani.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /vaːnə/, [ˈvæːnə]

### Noun

vane c (singular definite vanen, plural indefinite vaner)
* habit
* practice

#### Inflection
## Esperanto
### Etymology

From vana +‎ -e.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈvane]
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -ane
* Hyphenation: va‧ne

### Adverb

vane
* in vain, vainly
    Ŝi provis flirti kun li, sed estis vane.She tried to flirt with him, but it was in vain.

#### Related terms

* vana (“fruitless”)

## Italian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈva.ne/
* Rhymes: -ane
* Hyphenation: và‧ne

### Adjective

vane f pl
* feminine plural of vano

### Anagrams

* Neva, nave, vena

## Latin
### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈu̯aː.ne/, [ˈu̯äːnɛ]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈva.ne/, [ˈväːne]

### Adjective

vāne
* vocative masculine singular of vānus

### Adverb

vānē (comparative vānius, superlative vānissimē)
* in vain, vainly
    "dum bona vane laudata Pharisaei perierint, et peccata publicani accusata evanueritnt." Regula coenobialis
       While the good things of the vainly praised Pharisee will perish, also will the sins of the accused tax collector fade away.

### References

* “vane”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* vane in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

## Middle English
### Noun

vane
* Alternative form of fane (“flag, vane”)

## Norwegian Bokmål
### Etymology

From Old Norse vani.

### Noun

vane m (definite singular vanen, indefinite plural vaner, definite plural vanene)
* a habit, custom

#### Derived terms

* matvane

### References

* “vane” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

## Norwegian Nynorsk
### Etymology

From Old Norse vani.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /²ʋɑːnə/

### Noun

vane m (definite singular vanen, indefinite plural vanar, definite plural vanane)
* a habit, custom
** 1957, Tarjei Vesaas, Fuglane:Hege hadde for lang tid sidan slutta og bedi han halde seg ifrå denna trøyttande vanen.Hege had long ago stopped asking him to refrain from this tiresome habit.

#### Derived terms

* matvane

### References

* “vane” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

## Pali
### Alternative forms

* 𑀯𑀦𑁂 (Brahmi script)
* वने (Devanagari script)
* ৰনে (Bengali script)
* වනෙ (Sinhalese script)
* ဝနေ or ဝၼေ (Burmese script)
* วเน or วะเน (Thai script)
* ᩅᨶᩮ (Tai Tham script)
* ວເນ or ວະເນ (Lao script)
* វនេ (Khmer script)
* 𑅇𑄚𑄬 (Chakma script)

### Noun

vane
* locative singular of vana (“forest; desire”)

### Verb

vane
* optative active singular of vanati (“to desire”)