vastitas Latin · revision 32025

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=170–c. 90 BC, Accius|origins=ine-pro *h₁u(e)h₂-sto-}}

+

+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [ˈwaːs.tɪ.taːs]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [ˈvas.ti.tas]^(Wiktionary)

+

+ ==Forms==

+ '''vāstitās''' ''f'' (genitive vāstitātis); third declension^(Wiktionary)

+

+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|vāstus|-tās|t1=empty, desolate]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(de Vaan 2008) The adjective [[m|la|vāstus]] goes back to [[itc-pro|*wāsto-]] and [[ine-pro|*h₁u(e)h₂-sto-]].^(de Vaan 2008) Cognate with [[sga|fás|t=empty]] and [[goh|wuosti|t=empty, barren]].^(de Vaan 2008) The long vowel is not certain, and some scholars separate a ⟨vastus⟩ “enormous” from ⟨vāstus⟩ “empty”, though the dictionaries do not.^(de Vaan 2008)

+

+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ De Vaan and Köbler date it from Accius,^(de Vaan 2008)^(Köbler 2010) who has “because of you we suffer so many devastations of deaths”.^(OLD 2012)

+

+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is the empty or untended state of a place, desolation, as in Cicero's account of the fields of Centuripe, their solitude, their desolation, the flight of the farmers; it is also the devastation caused by war.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Concretely it is a desolate expanse, as Cicero's winged serpents brought from the wastes of Libya.^(OLD 2012) Seneca uses it of vast size or immensity, and Columella uses it of the frightening loudness of a herdsman's voice.^(OLD 2012)

+

+ Church Latin glosses it “waste, desolation, emptiness, empty space”.^(Stelten 1995)

+

+ ==Timeline==

+ * 170–c. 90 BC – Accius of devastation.^(OLD 2012)^(de Vaan 2008)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero of desolate fields and the wastes of Libya.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 4 BC–65 AD – Seneca of immense size.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 1st century AD – Columella of a fearsome voice.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+

+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # [[m|en|desolation|alt=Desolation]], emptiness of a place; [[m|en|devastation]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # A waste, [[m|en|wilderness]], desert.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # [[m|en|immensity|alt=Immensity]], vastness; fearful intensity.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

+

+ ==Related words==

+ * [[vastus|alt=vāstus]]

+ * [[vasto|alt=vāstō]]

+

+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}