vaco

vaco

1. first-person singular present indicative of vacar

• IPA^(key): /ˈva.ko/
• Rhymes: -ako
• Hyphenation: và‧co

vaco

1. first-person singular present indicative of vacare

• cavo, cavò, cova, voca

• vocō (pre-classical)
• vaceō (Medieval Latin)

From Proto-Italic *wakos, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁weh₂- (“to lack; empty”).^[1] The form in vo- possibly from vocīvus, shifted in pretonic syllable.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈwa.koː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈvaː.ko]

vacō (present infinitive vacāre, perfect active vacāvī or vacuī, supine vacātum); first conjugation, no passive

1. to be empty, void
2. to be unoccupied, vacant
3. to be idle, at leisure [with dative]

   Synonyms: langueō, dēsideō, iaceō, cessō, resideō, sileō, conquiēscō

   Philosophiae vacat.

   He has leisure for philosophy.

4. to be free to attend, have time, not be under other obligation

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

• 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^[1], Ann Arbor: Beech Stave Press, →ISBN, page 141

• “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, 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^[2], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to be free from business: negotiis vacare
    
  • to be free from blame: culpa carere, vacare
    

• vao

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈvake/, [ˈvɑː.kə]
• Rhymes: -akə

vaco

1. first-person singular present indicative of jí

• 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

vaco

1. nominative/vocative/accusative singular of vacas (“speech”)

vaco

1. first-person singular present indicative of vacar

• IPA^(key): /ˈbako/ [ˈba.ko]
• Rhymes: -ako
• Syllabification: va‧co

Borrowed from Latin vacuus.

vaco (feminine vaca, masculine plural vacos, feminine plural vacas)

1. (formal) vacant; blank

Masculine variant of vaca (“cow”).

vaco m (plural vacos)

1. (colloquial) bull

   Synonym: toro

vaco

1. first-person singular present indicative of vacar

• “vaco”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025