vacuus

   vacuus adj. with sup.    [cf. vaco], empty, void, unoccupied, vacant, free, clear, devoid of, without: castra, Cs.: Perque domos Ditis vacuas, V.: Aëra per vacuum ferri, V.: Acerrae, unpeopled, V.: agri, deserted, V.: partem aedium vacuam fecere, L.: aula, H.: equi, riderless, L.: lectus, O.: ossa vacuis exsucta medullis, Iu.: gladium vaginā vacuum in urbe non vidimus: defensoribus moenia, L.: cultoribus agri, O.: Messana ab his rebus: oppidum ab defensoribus, without, Cs.: ager frugum vacuus, S.—As subst n., an empty space, vaeant place, void, vacuity: in vacuum poterunt se extendere rami, V.: per vacuum incurrere, H.— Fig., free, freed, clear, devoid of, without: animus per somnum sensibus et curis vacuus: Crimine nox vacua est, O.: hora nulla vacua a furto reperietur: ab odio, S.: censores vacui ab operum locandorum curā, L.: vacuas caedis habete manūs, O.: operum vacuus, H.: cum domos vacuas novo matrimonio fecissent, L.—Free from labor, without business, at leisure, idle, clear, disengaged, unoccupied, not engrossed: quoniam vacui sumus, dicam: si es animo vacuo, expone: pedibus vacuis terere Porticum, O.: Cetera, quae vacuas tenuissent carmine mentes, V.: Rutilius animo vacuus, i. e. undisturbed, S.: Qui (te) semper vacuam sperat, i. e. heart-free, H.: Nec rursus iubeo, dum sit (domus Augusti) vacuissima, quaeras, i. e. till it is absolutely at leisure, O.—Of places, quiet, peaceful, undisturbed (poet.): Tibur, H.: tonsoris in umbrā, H.: mare, unguarded, Ta.—Of time, free, vacant, disengaged, leisure: vacuos dies habere: vacuam noctem operi dedere, L.—Of women, free, unmarried, single: Hersilia, i. e. widowed, O.: Elige de vacuis, among the single, O.—Of possessions, free, vacant, without occupant, unappropriated: possessio regni, Cs.: prudentiae doctrinaeque possessio: sese praedia vacua filio traditurum: Syriam provinciam vacuam tum morte Atilii Rufi, Ta.—As subst n.: si quis casus puerum egerit Orco, In vacuum venias, into the vacant property, H.—Empty, vain, worthless: tollens vacuum plus nimio Gloria verticem, H.

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vacua, vacuum ADJ

empty, vacant, unoccupied; devoid of, free of