vanitas

From Latin vanitas

vanitas (plural vanitases)

1. (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:

     In her straight-ahead photographs of storefronts, an arrangement of shoes or shrink-wrapped furniture becomes a vanitas still life.

• vanitas on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• Ivatans

vānus +‎ -tās.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈwaː.ni.taːs/, [ˈwaː.nɪ.taːs]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈva.ni.tas/, [ˈvaː.ni.tas]

vānitās f (genitive vānitātis); third declension

1. emptiness, nothingness

   vanitas vanitatum ― vanity of vanities

2. falsity, falsehood, deception, untruth, untrustworthiness, fickleness
3. vanity, vainglory

Third-declension noun.

• 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, 1883–1887)
• vanitas in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette