wane – English noun declension

English noun forms of wane

Noun: wane
Singularwane
Pluralwanes

Sample Sentences

  • In the morning, one might say, his face was of a fine florid hue, but after twelve o’clock, meridian—his dinner hour—it blazed like a grate full of Christmas coals; and continued blazing—but, as it were, with a gradual wane—till six o’clock, P.M., or thereabouts; […]. [1853, Herman Melville, “Bartleby, the Scrivener”, in The Piazza Tales, New York: Dix, Edwards & Co, published 1856:]
  • 1913, Michael Ott, The Catholic Encyclopedia, "Wenzel Anton Kaunitz",
  • His influence which was on the wane during the reign of Joseph II grew still less during the reign of Leopold II (1790-2).
  • Some French peasants also prefer to sow in the wane. [1906, James George Frazer, Adonis, Attis, Osiris, volume 2, page 133:]
  • It was very dark, for although the sky was clear the moon was now well in the wane, and would not rise till the small hours. [1926, H. P. Lovecraft, The Moon-Bog:]
  • The day was in its prime, the day was in its wane, and still, uneasy in mind and body, she slept on. [1846 October 1 – 1848 April 1, Charles Dickens, Dombey and Son, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1848, →OCLC:]
  • The situation of the Venetian party in the wane of the eighteenth century had become extremely critical. [1845, Benjamin Disraeli, Sybil, or The Two Nations, Book 1, Chapter 3:]
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  • 2002, Peter Ross, Appraisal and Repair of Timber Structures, p. 11,
  • Sapwood, or even bark, may appear on the corners, or may have been cut off, resulting in wane, or missing timber.

Etymology

1. From Middle English wane, from Old English wana (“defect, shortage”), from Proto-West Germanic *wanō, from Proto-Germanic *wanô, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁weh₂- (“to leave, abandon; empty, deserted”).
2. Cognates
3. See also wan-, want, and waste. Compare also Dutch waan (“insanity”) and German Wahn (“insanity”) deprecated defect, Old Norse vanr (“lacking”) ( > Danish prefix van-, only found in compounds), Latin vanus, Gothic 𐍅𐌰𐌽𐍃 (wans, “missing, lacking”), Albanian vonë (“late, futile, mentally retarded”), Armenian ունայն (unayn, “empty”), Old Saxon and Old High German wanon (“to decrease”), Modern Dutch weinig (“a few”), Modern German weniger (“less”), comparative of wenig (“few”) (-ig being a derivate suffix; -er the suffix of comparatives). Doublet of vain, vaunt, vaniloquent, vast, vacuum, vacant, vacate, which are Latin-derived, via the PIE root. See: Middle English Nouns 'wane', Old English Nouns 'wana', Dutch Nouns 'waan', German Nouns 'Wahn', Old Norse Nouns 'vanr', Latin Nouns 'vanus'.