vanitas

== English == === Etymology === From Latin vānitās. Doublet of vanity. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈvæn.ɪˌtɑs/ === Noun === vanitas (plural vanitases) (painting) A type of still life painting, symbolic of mortality, characteristic of Dutch painting of the 16th and 17th centuries. ==== Translations ==== === See also === memento mori === Further reading === vanitas on Wikipedia.Wikipedia === Anagrams === Ivatans == Latin == === Etymology === From vānus + -tās. === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈwaː.nɪ.taːs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈvaː.ni.tas] === Noun === vānitās f (genitive vānitātis); third declension emptiness, nothingness vanitas vanitatum ― vanity of vanities falsity, falsehood, deception, untruth, untrustworthiness, fickleness vanity, vainglory ==== Declension ==== Third-declension noun. ==== Derived terms ==== vānitāre ==== Descendants ==== === References === “vanitas”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “vanitas”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers "vanitas", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887) “vanitas”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.