English → Latin
“vacancy” in Latin
inānitāsemptiness, empty space; uselessness, inanityvacuitāsempty space, vacancy, vacuityinānisempty, void, hollow; vain; purposeless, meaningless, worthless, useless, fruitless, empty, idlevacuusempty, vacant, unoccupied; devoid or free of; without; free; unoccupiedlocusplace (referring to a specific location); a passage of literature; opportunity; cause; occasion; grounds
The English word vacancy itself goes back to Latin vacantia.
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
vacancy
Emptiness, inanitas (Cic., Plaut.); vacuitas (Vitr.): inane, vacuum (empty space, void).
Of an office, locus vacuus: munus vacuum (vacuitas, D. Brut. in Cic., Ep., ad Div., 11, 10, ed. Ern., quantam cupiditatem hominibus injiciat vacuitas). There is a vacancy, locus vacat (Plin., Ep.): there are five vacancies every year, quotannis quinque loci vacui fiunt (Wyttenbach): during a vacancy, loco, munere vacante.
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for vacancy?
- The usual Latin words for “vacancy” are inānitās, vacuitās, inānis; also vacuus, locus. 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.