vantare

Meaning

  1. (transitive) to praise
  2. (transitive) to claim, lay claim to
  3. (transitive) to boast (to possess something worthy of boasting about)

Frequency

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Hyphenated as
van‧tà‧re
Pronounced as (IPA)
/vanˈta.re/
Etymology

From Vulgar Latin or Late Latin vānitāre, from Latin vānus or vānitās. Compare French vanter.

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