useless, ineffective, fruitless · vain, shallow
eş: dérisoire, inutile, chimérique, frivole, futile, illusoire
köken: Inherited from Old French vain, from Latin vānus, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁weh₂- (“empty”).
aile: en vain
vain (overly proud of oneself) · vain (having no real substance) · vain (pointless, futile)
çekim: çoğul vanos
eş: baldío, fútil, inane, infructuoso, inútil, huero
köken: Inherited from Latin vānus. Cognate with Galician van and Portuguese vão.
aile: devanear, en vano, hilván
🔊 vano de la puerta
hollow
köken: i + hål + -ig
🔊 Många djur bygger sina bon i ihåliga träd.
made from whole cloth, fabricated out of whole cloth (having no basis in the truth)
köken: tuulesta (“from the wind”) + temmattu (“grabbed, pulled”)
🔊 Herra Doen selvitys onnettomuudesta oli tuulesta temmattu.
vain, empty, vacant, void · unsubstantial · groundless, baseless, meaningless, pointless, worthless, ineffectual, mindless, empty, idle, without foundation
çekim: üstünlük vānissimus
zıt: plenus, refertus, opīmus, implētus, explētus, complētus
köken: From Proto-Italic *wānos, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁weh₂- (“empty, leave, abandon, give out”). Cognate with Proto-Germanic *wanaz, Sanskrit ऊन (ūná).
🔊 4th century, St Jerome, Vulgate, 2 Paralipomenon 32:15
🔊 Ille nihil, nec mē quaerentem vāna morātur, ….
vain (having no real substance) · vain (effecting no real purpose)
köken: Inherited from Old Catalan va, inherited from Latin vānus.
aile: avanar-se, en va, envanir, vanament