"vain" meaning in French

See vain in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Adjective

IPA: /vɛ̃/ Audio: Fr-vain.ogg Forms: vaine [feminine], vains [masculine, plural], vaines [feminine, plural]
Etymology: Inherited from Old French vain, from Latin vānus, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁weh₂- (“empty”). Etymology templates: {{glossary|Inherited}} Inherited, {{inh|fr|fro|vain|||g=|g2=|g3=|id=|lit=|nocat=|pos=|sc=|sort=|tr=|ts=}} Old French vain, {{inh+|fr|fro|vain}} Inherited from Old French vain, {{inh|fr|la|vānus}} Latin vānus, {{der|fr|ine-pro|*h₁weh₂-||empty}} Proto-Indo-European *h₁weh₂- (“empty”) Head templates: {{fr-adj}} vain (feminine vaine, masculine plural vains, feminine plural vaines)
  1. useless, ineffective, fruitless
    Sense id: en-vain-fr-adj-~hqhM~mc
  2. vain, shallow Categories (topical): Personality Synonyms: frivole
    Sense id: en-vain-fr-adj-Fj-zs7ZQ Disambiguation of Personality: 0 100 Categories (other): French entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of French entries with incorrect language header: 4 96
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: en vain Related terms: vanité, vaniteux

Inflected forms

{
  "derived": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "en vain"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "Inherited"
      },
      "expansion": "Inherited",
      "name": "glossary"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "fr",
        "2": "fro",
        "3": "vain",
        "4": "",
        "5": "",
        "g": "",
        "g2": "",
        "g3": "",
        "id": "",
        "lit": "",
        "nocat": "",
        "pos": "",
        "sc": "",
        "sort": "",
        "tr": "",
        "ts": ""
      },
      "expansion": "Old French vain",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "fr",
        "2": "fro",
        "3": "vain"
      },
      "expansion": "Inherited from Old French vain",
      "name": "inh+"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "fr",
        "2": "la",
        "3": "vānus"
      },
      "expansion": "Latin vānus",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "fr",
        "2": "ine-pro",
        "3": "*h₁weh₂-",
        "4": "",
        "5": "empty"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-Indo-European *h₁weh₂- (“empty”)",
      "name": "der"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Inherited from Old French vain, from Latin vānus, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁weh₂- (“empty”).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "vaine",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "vains",
      "tags": [
        "masculine",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "vaines",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "vain (feminine vaine, masculine plural vains, feminine plural vaines)",
      "name": "fr-adj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "French",
  "lang_code": "fr",
  "pos": "adj",
  "related": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "vanité"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "vaniteux"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "useless, ineffective, fruitless"
      ],
      "id": "en-vain-fr-adj-~hqhM~mc",
      "links": [
        [
          "useless",
          "useless"
        ],
        [
          "ineffective",
          "ineffective"
        ],
        [
          "fruitless",
          "fruitless"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "4 96",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "French entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "0 100",
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "fr",
          "name": "Personality",
          "orig": "fr:Personality",
          "parents": [
            "Mind",
            "Human",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "vain, shallow"
      ],
      "id": "en-vain-fr-adj-Fj-zs7ZQ",
      "links": [
        [
          "vain",
          "vain#English"
        ],
        [
          "shallow",
          "shallow"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "frivole"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/vɛ̃/"
    },
    {
      "audio": "Fr-vain.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/7/75/Fr-vain.ogg/Fr-vain.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/75/Fr-vain.ogg"
    },
    {
      "homophone": "vainc"
    },
    {
      "homophone": "vaincs"
    },
    {
      "homophone": "vains"
    },
    {
      "homophone": "vin"
    },
    {
      "homophone": "vingt"
    },
    {
      "homophone": "vingts"
    },
    {
      "homophone": "vins"
    },
    {
      "homophone": "vint"
    },
    {
      "homophone": "vînt"
    }
  ],
  "word": "vain"
}
{
  "categories": [
    "French 1-syllable words",
    "French adjectives",
    "French entries with incorrect language header",
    "French lemmas",
    "French terms derived from Latin",
    "French terms derived from Old French",
    "French terms derived from Proto-Indo-European",
    "French terms inherited from Latin",
    "French terms inherited from Old French",
    "French terms with IPA pronunciation",
    "French terms with homophones",
    "Pages with 5 entries",
    "Pages with entries",
    "fr:Personality"
  ],
  "derived": [
    {
      "word": "en vain"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "Inherited"
      },
      "expansion": "Inherited",
      "name": "glossary"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "fr",
        "2": "fro",
        "3": "vain",
        "4": "",
        "5": "",
        "g": "",
        "g2": "",
        "g3": "",
        "id": "",
        "lit": "",
        "nocat": "",
        "pos": "",
        "sc": "",
        "sort": "",
        "tr": "",
        "ts": ""
      },
      "expansion": "Old French vain",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "fr",
        "2": "fro",
        "3": "vain"
      },
      "expansion": "Inherited from Old French vain",
      "name": "inh+"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "fr",
        "2": "la",
        "3": "vānus"
      },
      "expansion": "Latin vānus",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "fr",
        "2": "ine-pro",
        "3": "*h₁weh₂-",
        "4": "",
        "5": "empty"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-Indo-European *h₁weh₂- (“empty”)",
      "name": "der"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Inherited from Old French vain, from Latin vānus, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁weh₂- (“empty”).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "vaine",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "vains",
      "tags": [
        "masculine",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "vaines",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "vain (feminine vaine, masculine plural vains, feminine plural vaines)",
      "name": "fr-adj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "French",
  "lang_code": "fr",
  "pos": "adj",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "vanité"
    },
    {
      "word": "vaniteux"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "useless, ineffective, fruitless"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "useless",
          "useless"
        ],
        [
          "ineffective",
          "ineffective"
        ],
        [
          "fruitless",
          "fruitless"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "vain, shallow"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "vain",
          "vain#English"
        ],
        [
          "shallow",
          "shallow"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "frivole"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/vɛ̃/"
    },
    {
      "audio": "Fr-vain.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/7/75/Fr-vain.ogg/Fr-vain.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/75/Fr-vain.ogg"
    },
    {
      "homophone": "vainc"
    },
    {
      "homophone": "vaincs"
    },
    {
      "homophone": "vains"
    },
    {
      "homophone": "vin"
    },
    {
      "homophone": "vingt"
    },
    {
      "homophone": "vingts"
    },
    {
      "homophone": "vins"
    },
    {
      "homophone": "vint"
    },
    {
      "homophone": "vînt"
    }
  ],
  "word": "vain"
}

Download raw JSONL data for vain meaning in French (2.4kB)


This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable French dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-02-15 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-02-02 using wiktextract (ca09fec and c40eb85). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.