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vanitatem

vanitatem is a Latin form of vanitas, meaning “emptiness, untruthfulness; futility, foolishness, empty pride”. It is the accusative singular feminine noun.

Found 27 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, De Amicitia 94: multi autem Gnathonum similes, cum sint loco fortuna fama superiores, quorum est assentatio molesta, cum ad vanitatem accessit auctoritas.

Seneca the Younger, De Tranquillitate Animi 12.1: … in superuacuis aut ex superuacuo laboremus, id est ne quae aut non possumus consequi concupiscamus aut adepti uanitatem cupiditatum nostrarum sero post multum sudorem intellegamus, id est ne aut labor irritus sit sine effectu aut …

All forms of vanitas (declension 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.