vacuefacio
Latin
Etymology
From vacuus + -(ē)faciō. Compare vacēfīō.
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [wa.ku.eːˈfa.ki.oː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [va.ku.eˈfaː.t͡ʃi.o]
Verb
vacuēfaciō (present infinitive vacuēfacere, perfect active vacuēfēcī, supine vacuēfactum); third (-iō variant) conjugation, suppletive
- to empty, evacuate
- 63 BCE, Cicero, Catiline Orations Oratio in Catilinam Prima in Senatu Habita.14:
- Nūper cum morte superiōris uxōris novīs nūptiīs domum vacuēfēcissēs, nōnne etiam aliō incrēdibilī scelere hoc scelus cumulāstī?
- When recently, after the death of your previous wife, you had emptied your house for a new marriage, did you not also pile upon this crime with another unbelievable atrocity?
- Nūper cum morte superiōris uxōris novīs nūptiīs domum vacuēfēcissēs, nōnne etiam aliō incrēdibilī scelere hoc scelus cumulāstī?
Conjugation
Conjugation of vacuēfaciō (third (-iō variant) conjugation, suppletive)
References
- “vacuefacio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers