English
in vacuo
In vacuo comes from Latin in vacuō ‘in vacuum’.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEin vacuō‘in vacuum’
- Englishearliest quotation 1965in vacuo
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
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- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEin vacuō‘in vacuum’
- Englishearliest quotation 1965in vacuo
Earliest quotation: 1965, Attila Zohar, Kings Cross Black Magic: “Their own mental capacity to examine what they saw…”
Every English word from Latin in vacuō
Today it means
adv In a partial or full vacuum.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin in vacuō / in vacuo