vane

From Middle English vane, Southern Middle English variant of fane, from Old English fana (“cloth, banner, flag”), from Proto-Germanic *fanô. Cognate with Saterland Frisian Foone (“flag, banner”) and German Fahne. Compare fane.

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /veɪn/
• Rhymes: -eɪn
• Homophones: vain, vein

vane (plural vanes)

1. (countable) 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
4. a sight on a sextant or compass
5. one of the metal guidance or stabilizing fins attached to the tail of a bomb or other missile

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

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”)

vane f pl

1. Feminine plural of adjective vano.

• nave, vena

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈwaː.ne/, [ˈwaː.nɛ]

vāne

1. vocative masculine singular of vānus

• 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.