vacatio

Latin

Etymology

vacō (“to be free”) +‎ -tiō

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /u̯aˈkaː.ti.oː/, [u̯äˈkäːt̪ioː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /vaˈkat.t͡si.o/, [väˈkät̪ː͡s̪io]

Noun

vacātiō f (genitive vacātiōnis); third declension

1. freedom, exemption, immunity (from service)
2. privilege

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	vacātiō	vacātiōnēs
Genitive	vacātiōnis	vacātiōnum
Dative	vacātiōnī	vacātiōnibus
Accusative	vacātiōnem	vacātiōnēs
Ablative	vacātiōne	vacātiōnibus
Vocative	vacātiō	vacātiōnēs

Descendants

• English: vacation
• French: vacation
• Hungarian: vakáció
• Italian: vacazione
• Portuguese: vacação
• Romanian: vacație
• Spanish: vacación

References

• “vacatio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “vacatio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• vacatio 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)
• vacatio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to be excused military duty: militiae vacationem habere