supervacaneus
Latin
Alternative forms
- supervacuāneus
Etymology
From super- (“above”) + vacō (“empty”) + -āneus.
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /su.per.waˈkaː.ne.us/, [sʊ.pɛr.waˈkaː.ne.ʊs]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /su.per.vaˈka.ne.us/, [su.per.vaˈkaː.ne.us]
Adjective
supervacāneus (feminine supervacānea, neuter supervacāneum); first/second declension
- above what is necessary, unnecessary, needless, superfluous, redundant
Declension
First/second declension.
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
| Nominative | supervacāneus | supervacānea | supervacāneum | supervacāneī | supervacāneae | supervacānea | |
| Genitive | supervacāneī | supervacāneae | supervacāneī | supervacāneōrum | supervacāneārum | supervacāneōrum | |
| Dative | supervacāneō | supervacāneae | supervacāneō | supervacāneīs | supervacāneīs | supervacāneīs | |
| Accusative | supervacāneum | supervacāneam | supervacāneum | supervacāneōs | supervacāneās | supervacānea | |
| Ablative | supervacāneō | supervacāneā | supervacāneō | supervacāneīs | supervacāneīs | supervacāneīs | |
| Vocative | supervacānee | supervacānea | supervacāneum | supervacāneī | supervacāneae | supervacānea | |
Synonyms
- (unnecessary, superfluous): supervacuus
Derived terms
- supervacāneō
Related terms
- vacō
- vacuus
- supervacō
- supervacuē
- supervacuitās
- supervacuō
- supervacuus
Descendants
- English: supervacaneous
- Italian: supervacaneo
- Portuguese: supervacâneo
- Spanish: supervacáneo
References
- supervacaneus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- supervacaneus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- supervacaneus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette