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vanum

vanum is a Latin form of vanus, meaning “empty, vain; idle, false; boastful”. It is the accusative singular neuter adjective.

Found 68 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, Letters to Atticus 10.4.12: tu Oppios Terentiae delegabis. iam enim urbis vanum periculum est. me tamen consilio iuva, pedibusne Regium an hinc statim in navem, et cetera, quoniam commoror. …

Tibullus, Elegiae 3.4.56: uanum nocturnis fallit imaginibus,

Lucan, Civil War 6.434: Scire parum superos. Vanum saevumque furorem

All forms of vanus (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.