vanitas

English

From Latin vanitas. Doublet of vanity.

vanitas (plural vanitases)

(painting) A type of still life painting, symbolic of mortality, characteristic of Dutch painting of the 16th and 17th centuries.
- 2009 March 6, Holland Cotter, “Change and Permanence, Captured by Cameras”, in New York Times‎^[1]:
  In her straight-ahead photographs of storefronts, an arrangement of shoes or shrink-wrapped furniture becomes a vanitas still life.

type of still life painting

vānitās f (genitive vānitātis); third declension

Third-declension noun.

⇒? Aromanian: vãnãtati
→ Asturian: vanidá (learned)
→ Catalan: vanitat (learned)
→ English: vanitas (learned)
Old Franco-Provençal: vanitá
- Franco-Provençal: vanitá
→ Old French: vanité (learned)
- Middle French: vanité
  - → Middle English: vanite
    - English: vanity
  - French: vanité
→ Friulian: vanitât (learned)
→ Italian: vanità (learned)
- → Maltese: vanità
→ Piedmontese: vanità (learned)
Old Galician-Portuguese: vãydade, vãidade
- Galician: vaidade
- Portuguese: vaidade
→ Portuguese: vanidade (learned)
Romanian: vântă, vintă
→ Romanian: vanitate (learned)
Old Spanish: vanedad
- Spanish: vanedad
→ Spanish: vanidad (learned)

“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’s 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.