English → Latin
“blank” in Latin
inānisempty, void, hollow; vain; purposeless, meaningless, worthless, useless, fruitless, empty, idlevacuusempty, vacant, unoccupied; devoid or free of; without; free; unoccupiedpūrusclear, limpid; clean; puredēmittōto send or bring down, cause to hang or fall down; drop, flow, shed, sag, let fall; to sink, lower, put down; to cast dofrangōto break, shatter; to break, shatter (a promise, a treaty, someone's ideas (dreams, projects), someone's spirit); to brepercellōto beat down; to overturn or upset; to strike or smiteprōflīgōto strike or dash to the ground; to overthrow, overcome, conquer; to finish, conclude, resolve, put an end totrīstissad, unhappy, melancholy, morose; sorrowful, mournful; disagreeable, harsh, bitter (of taste)palliduspale, pallid, wan; that makes or causes a pale condition; musty, moldy, hoarypalleōto be pale; to turn pale, blanch; to grow pale, be anxious, be fearful; to fade, lose color, change color
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
blank
not written on, inanis (generally), vacuus (which can be, or is yet to be written on), purus.
Downcast, crushed, demissus, fractus, qui animo deficit, perculsus, profligatus; tristis, spe alienus.
Pale, pallidus, pallens.
Confused, perturbatus, (animo) confusus.
blank s.
charta or tabella inanis, vacua, pura; spatium inane.
In a lottery, sors inanis. I draw a blank, sors sine lucro exit.
Vain thing, res inanis, res vana.
blank v.
aliquem or alicujus animum affligere; alicujus animum frangere, infringere; alicujus mentem animumque perturbare; consternare, percutere.
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for blank?
- The usual Latin words for “blank” are inānis, vacuus, pūrus; also dēmittō, frangō, percellō. The right choice depends on the sense; see the distinctions below.
Entry from J. E. Riddle & T. K. Arnold, A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon (rev. C. Anthon, New York: Harper, 1864), digitised by Fergus J. P. Walsh, CC BY-SA 4.0; Latin markup adapted by latindictionary.co.