empty (adj.) Copy link Outline I. Lit.1. văcuus (unoccupied)2. ĭnānis, e (absolutely void)3. cassus (of fruit-shells, husks, etc., which have nothing in them)II. Fig.1. ĭnānis2. vānus3. cassus • empty (adj.): I. Lit.: 1. văcuus (unoccupied): e. space, v. spatium, Lucr.: an e. theatre, v. theatrum, Hor.: on your arrival those benches were left e., adventu tuo ista subsellia vacua facta sunt, Cic. Cat. 1, 7, 16 (al. vacuefacta). 2. ĭnānis, e (absolutely void): e. chaff, in. paleae, Virg.: it is the opinion of the natural philosophers that there is no space absolutely e., physicis inane esse nihil placet, Cic. (Lucr. often uses inane absol. = empty space, 1, 370, etc.): a house dismantled and absolutely e., domus nuda atque in., Cic. Verr. 2, 34, 84 (domus vacua is a house without occupants). 3. cassus (of fruit-shells, husks, etc., which have nothing in them): v. hollow. II. Fig.: idle, without worth or result: 1. ĭnānis: an e. name, in. nomen, Cic.: the e. pageantry of office, inania honoris, Tac.: e. threats, minae in., Hor. 2. vānus: e. joys, v. gaudia, Hor.: v. vain. 3. cassus: an e. dread, c. formido, Lucr.: e. labours, c. labores, Plin. jun.