Etymograph

English

vacuitous

Vacuitous comes from Latin vacuus ‘empty, vacant’, and goes back to Proto-Italic *wakowos.

  1. Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*wakowosreconstructed
  2. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEvacuus‘empty, vacant’
  3. Englishearliest quotation 1851vacuitous

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor

Lineage

  1. Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*wakowosreconstructed
  2. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEvacuus‘empty, vacant’
  3. Englishearliest quotation 1851vacuitous

Earliest quotation: 1851, James Yearsley, A Treatise on the enlarged tonsil and elongated uvula: “The half-opened mouth, and consequently the vacuitous expression of…”

Linked words

through Latin vacuus ‘empty, vacant’

void, vacuum, evacuation, evacuate, vacuous, 4 more

Today it means

adj Lacking substance; trivial; meaningless.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / Proto-Italic *wakowos / vacuitous

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