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+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=96–55 BC, Lucretius}}
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+ ==Pronunciation==
+ * Classical: [ɪˈnaː.nɛ]^(Wiktionary)
+ * Ecclesiastical: [iˈnaː.ne]^(Wiktionary)
+ 
+ ==Forms==
+ '''ināne''' ''n'' (genitive inānis); third declension^(Wiktionary)
+ 
+ ==Etymology==
+ It is the neuter of [[m|la|inānis|t=empty]], used as a noun.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) De Vaan finds no certain etymology for ⟨inānis⟩, and notes that “empty, lacking” is recorded before “hollow”.^(de Vaan 2008)
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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==
+ In Lucretius it is the void of Epicurean physics: ''namque est in rēbus ināne'', “for there is void in things”.^(OLD 2012)
+ 
+ ==Semantic evolution==
+ In philosophy it is space empty of matter: Cicero reports Epicurus' atoms moving through the infinite void, where there is no top or bottom.^(OLD 2012) In poetry it is an empty expanse, especially the sky: Virgil's stone rolls through the void, and Ovid's arrow sounds through it.^(OLD 2012) Livy has a hollow inside a mine, and Seneca empty places in the earth.^(OLD 2012) In the plural it is empty or illusory things, as Cicero's empty show of nobility and Horace's poet chasing clouds and empty air.^(OLD 2012)
+ 
+ ==Timeline==
+ * 96–55 BC – Lucretius of the void.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)
+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero of the void and of vanities.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)
+ * 70–19 BC – Virgil of the empty sky.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)
+ * 59 BC–17 AD – Livy of a hollow in a mine.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)
+ 
+ ==Meanings==
+ ===Noun===
+ # Empty space, the [[m|en|void]]; the sky.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)
+ # An empty part, a hollow.^(OLD 2012)
+ # ''(plural)'' Empty things, [[m|en|vanity|alt=vanities]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)
+ 
+ ==Related words==
+ * [[inānis]]
+ * [[inānitās]]
+ * [[vacuum]]
+ 
+ ==Usage notes==
+ Döderlein contrasts [[inānis]], empty of what once filled it, with [[vacuus]], empty but able to be filled; used as nouns, ''ināne'' is a nothing, ''vacuum'' a vacancy.^(Döderlein 1874)
+ 
+ ==References==
+ {{reflist}}