vanitas: all forms
vanitas means “emptiness, untruthfulness; futility, foolishness, empty pride”. Below is its full declension in Latin.
Forms
| Feminine | |
|---|---|
| Nominative | vanitas |
| Genitive | vanitatis |
| Dative | vanitati |
| Accusative | vanitatem |
| Ablative | vanitate |
| Vocative | vanitas |
| Locative | vanitate |
| Feminine | |
|---|---|
| Nominative | vanitates |
| Genitive | vanitatum · vanitatium |
| Dative | vanitatibus |
| Accusative | vanitates |
| Ablative | vanitatibus |
| Vocative | vanitates |
| Locative | vanitatibus |
Meaning and examples of vanitas
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.