“empty” in Latin

exinanire (to empty anything, so thai nothing remains in it; as Justinus, lupa, amissis catulis, distenta ubera exinanire cupiens, 43, 2, 5; then like “clear out” = plunder, domos, Cic.; reges atque omnes gentes, Cic.): nudum atque inanem reddere (clear out, plunder; domum ejus exornatam atque instructam reddiderat nudam atque inanem, Cic.): vacuare: evacuare: vacuum facere (to empty, especially with a view to fill it again; e.g., a cask; the two last also of removing from or clearing out a dwelling, that a new occupant may come in): exonerare (to empty of a load; e.g., a ship, the bowels): exhaurire (to drain; e.g., poculum; then, also, to plunder, e.g., the treasury): exsiccare (to drain dry; e.g., lagenas): everrere et extergere (to sweep clean; i. e., rob of all it contained; fanum, etc.): expilare (plunder, e.g., the treasury): inanem relinquere (to leave it empty, so that nothing can come into or on it): vacuum relinquere (to leave it empty, so that something can take the vacant place; e.g., tabellam, so that something more may be written on it): deplere (to empty, to draw off; e.g. oleum bis in die depleto, Cato).

To empty itself, se effundere; effundi: to empty itself into the sea, in mare effundi or se effundere; in mare fluere, influere (Cic.), decurrere (Liv.); deferri (Plin.), evadere (Curt.): evolvor (if it rolls a large body of water; e.g., Danubius vastis sex fluminibus, Plin.).

inanis (empty; opposed to plenus et instructus; cither indifferently or with blame): vacuus (unoccupied; hence free, etc., mostly with praise; but also euphemistically, for being deprived of some advantage before possessed by the thing in question, or which one should have expected to find it in possession of; opposed to occupatus, obsessus. Döderlein says inanis = what ought to be already full; vacuus = what may still be filled). (The words are found in this connection and order.) nudus atque inanis: vacuus atque nudus: purus (left in its natural state without ornament, etc.; also without cultivation, etc., Varr.). Empty of anything, nudus aliqua re and ab aliqua re. An empty house, domus inanis (in which there is nothing); domus vacua (unoccupied). An empty (sheet of) paper, tabella (or charta) inanis (on which nothing is written); tabella (or charta) vacua (on which nothing, indeed, is written at present, but which still is to be or may be filled). An empty space, spot, etc., locus inanis or inanis atque nudus (general term); locus vacuus (either with praise, as free, not blocked up; or with blame, euphemistically, as having lost what it before had; e.g., vacuus arboribus); locus purus (Varr., not cultivated). An empty seat (on a bench), locus vacuus subsellii: an empty place or corner in a store-room, locus vacuus cellae (from which what before stood there has been removed). An empty nest, nidus inanis (in which there is nothing); nidus vacuus (from which the eggs or young birds have been taken: thus the mother-bird, whose nest has been robbed in her absence, finds it vacuus). An empty street, via occursu hominum vacua. To come with empty hands, sine munere venire (i. e., without a present): to come back empty, inanem redire, revertere. To be or stand empty, inanem esse; vacuum esse; vacare (e.g., tota domus superior vacat); of anything, vacare, vacuum esse (ab) aliqua re: to leave empty, vacuum relinquere.

To make empty, [Vid: To EMPTY].

IMPROPR., inanis (empty, unsubstantial, of things): vanus (unsubstantial, without solid grounds, of things; also of men, empty, superficial; e.g., vana ingenia, Sall.). Empty words, verba inania: voces inanes: sermo vanus: inanis verborum sonitus. An empty name, nomen inane. Without truth, friendship is but an empty name, sine veritate nomen amicitiae valere non potest. Empty compliments, verba inania or mera: these are empty compliments, verba istaec sunt. Empty show, pompa, from context (Cic., De Or., 2, 72, 294; Sen., De Ben., 2, 13, 2).

Empty-handed, inanis (bringing nothing; cum tui ad me inanes veniant, ad te cum epistolis revertantur, Cic.): immunis (without a present, Hor., Ep., 1, 14, 33).