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vacet

vacet is a Latin form of vaco, meaning “be empty, be free (from); have time (for), be at leisure; (impers. vacat) there is time”. It is the 3rd person singular present active subjunctive.

Found 51 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, De Republica 1.67: … tant honoribus, ut necesse sit in eius modi re publica plena libertatis esse omnia, ut et privata domus omnis vacet dominatione et hoc malum usque ad bestias perveniat, denique ut pater filium metuat, filius patrem neglegat, …

Propertius, Elegiae 4.11.94: caelibis ad curas nec uacet ulla uia.

All forms of vaco (conjugation table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Lewis & Short, A Latin Dictionary (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.