vac

See also: Appendix:Variations of "vac"

English

Etymology

Abbreviations.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /væk/
Audio (Southern England): (file)

Noun

vac (plural vacs)

(informal) Clipping of vacation (“extended period of time away from work or school”).
- 1978, Lawrence Durrell, Livia (Avignon Quintet), Faber & Faber, published 1992, page 324:
  It was to be their last term at Oxford and Hilary had incited them both to journey with him to Provence for the long vac.
- 1983, Bill Oddie, Gone Birding, London: Methuen, page 45:
  From 1960 to 1963 I spent my terms at Cambridge University but was back home for the vacs[.]
(informal) Clipping of vacuum cleaner.
Clipping of vacuum.
(informal) Clipping of vaccine.

Derived terms

(vacation): long vac, swot vac
(vacuum cleaner): minivac
(vacuum): vac bed, vac pack

Verb

vac (third-person singular simple present vacs, present participle vaccing or vacking, simple past and past participle vacced or vacked)

To vacuum; to clean with a vacuum cleaner.
- 2010, Alan Hollinghurst, The Folding Star, page 332:
  I went on to how Harold used to work in security on the building; he used to see Andy in the underground car-park vacking the sick out of the Merc.

Anagrams

ACV, AVC, CVA, Cav.

Huave

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish vaca. Doublet of wacüx.

Noun

vac

cow

References

Stairs Kreger, Glenn Albert; Scharfe de Stairs, Emily Florence; Olvaries Oviedo, Proceso; Ponce Villanueva, Tereso; Comonfort Llave, Lorenzo (1981), Diccionario huave de San Mateo del Mar (Serie de vocabularios indígenas “Mariano Silva y Aceves”; 24)‎^[1] (in Spanish), México, D.F.: Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, page 177

Pali

Etymology

Inherited from Sanskrit वच् (vac).

Root

vac (Pali name vaca)

to say
- [c. 500 AD, Kaccāyana, Pālivyākaraṇaṃ [Pali Grammar]‎^[2] (overall work in Pali), page 291; republished as Satish Chandra Acharyya Vidyabhusana, editor, Kaccayana's Pali Grammar (edited in Devanagari character and translated into English), Calcutta, Bengal: Mahabodhi Society, 1901:
  वचवसवहादीनं उकारो वस्स ये ॥६॥
  वच, वस, वह इच्चेवमादीनं धातूनं वकारस्स उकारो होति य पच्चये परे । उच्चते, वुच्चति; वुस्सति; वुय्हति ॥
  6. Vacavasavahādīnaṃ ukāro vassa ye
  Vaca, vasa, vaha iccevamādīnaṃ dhātūnaṃ vakārassa ukāro hoti ya paccaye pare.Uccate, vuccate; vussati; vuyhati.
  Vac, vas, vah etc. which have 'u' for 'va'
  Roots vac, vas, vah and so on etc. have 'u' from 'va' next to the ending 'ya'.
  Exx: uccate, vuccate; vussati; vuyhati.]

Derived terms

Verbs

Non-present participles, gerundives, absolutives and infinitives

vutta

Nouns

Pali terms belonging to the root vac (0 c, 2 e)

Romanian

Noun

vac n (plural vacuri)

obsolete form of veac

Declension

	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	vac	vacul	vacuri	vacurile
genitive-dative	vac	vacului	vacuri	vacurilor
vocative	vacule		vacurilor

References

vac in Academia Română, Micul dicționar academic, ediția a II-a, Bucharest: Univers Enciclopedic, 2010. →ISBN

Veps

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *vacca. Cognates include Finnish vatsa.

Noun

vac

belly

Declension

Inflection of vac (inflection type 5/sana)
nominative sing.	vac
genitive sing.	vacan
partitive sing.	vacad
partitive plur.	vacoid
	singular	plural
nominative	vac	vacad
accusative	vacan	vacad
genitive	vacan	vacoiden
partitive	vacad	vacoid
essive-instructive	vacan	vacoin
translative	vacaks	vacoikš

inessive	vacas	vacoiš
elative	vacaspäi	vacoišpäi
illative	vacaha vacha	vacoihe

adessive	vacal	vacoil
ablative	vacalpäi	vacoilpäi
allative	vacale	vacoile

abessive	vacata	vacoita
comitative	vacanke	vacoidenke
prolative	vacadme	vacoidme

approximative I	vacanno	vacoidenno
approximative II	vacannoks	vacoidennoks
egressive	vacannopäi	vacoidennopäi

terminative I	vacahasai vachasai	vacoihesai
terminative II	vacalesai	vacoilesai
terminative III	vacassai	—

additive I	vacahapäi vachapäi	vacoihepäi
additive II	vacalepäi	vacoilepäi