VACANCY Copy link • VACANCYEmptiness, inanitas (Cic., Plaut.); vacuitas (Vitr.): inane, vacuum (empty space, void). Of an office, locus vacuus: munus vacuum (vacuitas, D. Brut. in Cic., Ep., ad Div., 11, 10, ed. Ern., quantam cupiditatem hominibus injiciat vacuitas). There is a vacancy, locus vacat (Plin., Ep.): there are five vacancies every year, quotannis quinque loci vacui fiunt (Wyttenbach): during a vacancy, loco, munere vacante.