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Definition wane

Etymology 1

The noun is derived from Old English wana (“defect, shortage”); the verb from Old English wanian via Middle English wanien. Both ultimately trace to Proto-Germanic *wan?n?, from Proto-Indo-European *h?weh?- (“to leave, abandon; empty, deserted”), whence 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 ???? (wans, “missing, lacking”), Albanian vonë (“late, futile, mentally retarded”), Armenian ?????? (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 derivatem suffix; -er the suffix of comparatives). Doublet of vain, vaunt, vaniloquent, vast, vacuum, vacant, vacate, which are Latin-derived, via the PIE root.

Noun

wane (plural wanes)

1. A gradual diminution in power, value, intensity etc.
2. The lunar phase during which the sun seems to illuminate less of the moon as its sunlit area becomes progressively smaller as visible from Earth.
3. (literary) The end of a period.
4. (woodworking) A rounded corner caused by lack of wood, often showing bark.

Verb

wane (third-person singular simple present wanes, present participle waning, simple past and past participle waned)

1. (intransitive) To progressively lose its splendor, value, ardor, power, intensity etc.; to decline.
2. (intransitive) Said of light that dims or diminishes in strength.
3. (intransitive, astronomy) Said of the Moon as it passes through the phases of its monthly cycle where its surface is less and less visible.
4. (intransitive) Said of a time period that comes to an end.
5. (intransitive, archaic) To decrease physically in size, amount, numbers or surface.
6. (transitive, obsolete) To cause to decrease.

Etymology 2

From Scots wean.

Noun

wane (plural wanes)

1. (Scotland, slang) A child.

Etymology 3

From Middle English w?ne, w?ne (“dwelling," "custom”), of unclear origins, compare wont.

Noun

wane (plural wanes)

1. (chiefly Northern England and Scotland, obsolete) A house or dwelling.

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