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発音

• (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈu̯aː.nus/, [ˈu̯äːnʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈva.nus/, [ˈväːnus]

形容詞

vānus (feminine vāna, neuter vānum, superlative vānissimus); first/second-declension adjective

1. vain, empty, vacant, void

   Synonyms: vacuus, inānis, irritus

   Antonyms: plenus, refertus, opīmus, implētus, explētus, complētus, frequens

   • 4th century, St Jerome, Vulgate, 2 Paralipomenon 32:15

     non vos ergo decipiat Ezechias nec vana persuasione deludat neque credatis ei si enim nullus potuit deus cunctarum gentium atque regnorum liberare populum suum de manu mea et de manu patrum meorum consequenter nec Deus vester poterit eruere vos de hac manu.

     Therefore let not Ezechias deceive you, nor delude you with a vain persuasion, and do not believe him. For if no god of all the nations and kingdoms, could deliver his people out of my hand, and out of the hand of my fathers, consequently neither shall your God be able to deliver you out of my hand.

2. unsubstantial
3. (figuratively) groundless, baseless, meaningless, pointless, worthless, ineffectual, mindless, empty, idle, without foundation
   • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 2.287:

     “Ille nihil, nec mē quaerentem vāna morātur, [...].”

     “[About all of] that, [Hector says] nothing, nor does my idle inquiry delay him, [...].”

4. ostentatious, boastful
5. deceptive, untrustworthy

語形変化

First/second-declension adjective.

関連する語

• vānēscō
• vānitās
• vānum

派生した語

参照

• “vanus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “vanus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "vanus", 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)
• vanus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.