vane

From Middle English vane, Southern Middle English variant of fane, from Old English fana (“cloth, banner, flag”), from Proto-West Germanic *fanō, from Proto-Germanic *fanô, from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂n- (“something woven; weave; tissue; fabric; cloth”).

Cognate with Saterland Frisian Foone (“flag, banner”), Dutch vaan (“banner, flag”), German Low German Fahn (“flag”), German Fahne. Doublet of obsolete fane (“weathercock; banner”) and fanon.

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /veɪn/

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• Rhymes: -eɪn
• Homophones: vain, vein

vane (plural vanes)

1. A weather vane.
2. Any of several usually relatively thin, rigid, flat, or sometimes curved surfaces radially mounted along an axis, as a blade in a turbine or a sail on a windmill, that is turned by or used to turn a fluid.
3. (ornithology) The flattened, web-like part of a feather, consisting of a series of barbs on either side of the shaft.

   Synonym: vexillum

   Meronym: barb

4. (navigation) A sight on a sextant or compass.
5. (weaponry) One of the metal guidance or stabilizing fins attached to the tail of a bomb or other missile.

   Synonym: fin

• weather vane on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• Aven, Evan, Nave, Neva, Vena, aven, nave, neva

• IPA^(key): [ˈvanɛ]

vane m

1. vocative singular of van

vane

1. third-person singular present of vanout

From Old Norse vani.

• IPA^(key): /vaːnə/, [ˈvæːnə]

vane c (singular definite vanen, plural indefinite vaner)

1. habit
2. practice

• IPA^(key): /ˈvane/

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vane

1. in vain

• vana (“fruitless”)

• IPA^(key): /ˈva.ne/
• Rhymes: -ane
• Hyphenation: và‧ne

vane f pl

1. feminine plural of vano

• Neva, nave, vena

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈu̯aː.ne/, [ˈu̯äːnɛ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈva.ne/, [ˈväːne]

vāne

1. vocative masculine singular of vānus

vānē (comparative vānius, superlative vānissimē)

1. in vain, vainly

   "dum bona vane laudata Pharisaei perierint, et peccata publicani accusata evanueritnt." Regula coenobialis

   While the good things of the vainly praised Pharisee will perish, also will the sins of the accused tax collector fade away.

• “vane”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• vane in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

vane

1. Alternative form of fane (“flag, vane”)

From Old Norse vani.

vane m (definite singular vanen, indefinite plural vaner, definite plural vanene)

1. a habit, custom

• matvane

• “vane” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

From Old Norse vani.

• IPA^(key): /²ʋɑːnə/

vane m (definite singular vanen, indefinite plural vanar, definite plural vanane)

1. a habit, custom
   • 1957, Tarjei Vesaas, Fuglane:

     Hege hadde for lang tid sidan slutta og bedi han halde seg ifrå denna trøyttande vanen.

     Hege had long ago stopped asking him to refrain from this tiresome habit.

• matvane

• “vane” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

vane

1. locative singular of vana (“forest; desire”)

vane

1. optative active singular of vanati (“to desire”)