void English · revision 13399

− It is, through Anglo-French, [[bor|fro|voide]], feminine of voit, empty, vast, hollow,^(Barnhart 1988)^(Etymonline)^(Hoad 1986) a dialect variant of Old French vuide (modern French vide),^(Hoad 1986)^(NODE 1998) from Vulgar Latin [[m|la-vul|*vocitus]],^(Barnhart 1988)^(Hoad 1986)^(MWU 2024) related to Latin vocīvus, vacīvus, empty, and to vacuus and vacāre, to be empty (see [[vacuum]] and [[vacant]]).^(Barnhart 1988)^(Hoad 1986)^(Etymonline) The verb is from Old French voider, to empty,^(Barnhart 1988)^(Etymonline) and partly a shortening of [[avoid]].^(NODE 1998)