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出典:『Wiktionary』 (2025/08/08 14:43 UTC 版)
Originally used in the legal sense "to annul", a denominal from Early Modern English vacat (“legal annulment”), a development from 中期英語 vacat (“absence or cancellation noted in a register”), from Latin vacat, third-person singular present active indicative of vacō (“to be idle; to be unoccupied”, literally “to be empty”).
The primary modern sense "to move out" likely developed under the influence of older borrowing vacant (“unoccupied”), in combination with the Early Modern use of vacate to refer to the termination of official appointments to office, which would leave those position vacant.
vacate (third-person singular simple present vacates, present participle vacating, simple past and past participle vacated)
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