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Yes. The word vanitas is a Scrabble US word. The word vanitas is worth 10 points in Scrabble:

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7-letter words (1 found)

VANITAS,

6-letter words (5 found)

AVANTI,AVIANS,ISTANA,SATNAV,SAVANT,

5-letter words (21 found)

ANTAS,ANTIS,AVANT,AVAST,AVIAN,NATIS,SAINT,SATAI,SATIN,SAVIN,STAIN,TAINS,TANAS,TAVAS,TIANS,TINAS,VANTS,VINAS,VINTS,VISTA,VITAS,

4-letter words (40 found)

AIAS,AINS,AITS,ANAS,ANIS,ANSA,ANTA,ANTI,ANTS,AVAS,ISNA,ITAS,NATS,NAVS,NITS,SAIN,SANT,SATI,SNIT,TAIN,TAIS,TANA,TANS,TAVA,TAVS,TIAN,TINA,TINS,VAIN,VANS,VANT,VASA,VAST,VATS,VIAS,VINA,VINS,VINT,VISA,VITA,

3-letter words (37 found)

AAS,AIA,AIN,AIS,AIT,ANA,ANI,ANS,ANT,ATS,AVA,INS,ITA,ITS,NAS,NAT,NAV,NIS,NIT,SAI,SAN,SAT,SAV,SIN,SIT,TAI,TAN,TAS,TAV,TIN,TIS,VAN,VAS,VAT,VIA,VIN,VIS,

2-letter words (13 found)

AA,AI,AN,AS,AT,IN,IS,IT,NA,SI,ST,TA,TI,

You can make 117 words from vanitas according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of vanitas

vanitas

Etymology

From Latin vanitas. Doublet of vanity.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈvæn.ɪˌtɑs/

Noun

vanitas (plural vanitases)

  1. (painting) A type of still life painting, symbolic of mortality, characteristic of Dutch painting of the 16th and 17th centuries.

Translations

See also

  • memento mori

Further reading

  • vanitas on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

  • Ivatans

Latin

Etymology

vānus +‎ -tās.

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈu̯aː.ni.taːs/, [ˈu̯äːnɪt̪äːs̠]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈva.ni.tas/, [ˈväːnit̪äs]

Noun

vānitās f (genitive vānitātis); third declension

  1. emptiness, nothingness
    vanitas vanitatum ― vanity of vanities
  2. falsity, falsehood, deception, untruth, untrustworthiness, fickleness
  3. vanity, vainglory

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Derived terms

  • vānitāre

Descendants

References

  • “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 with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • vanitas in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

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