vascellum
Latin
Etymology
From vāsculum (“small vessel”) + -lum (diminutive suffix).
Noun
vāscellum n (genitive vāscellī); second declension (Late Latin)
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter).
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | vāscellum | vāscella |
| genitive | vāscellī | vāscellōrum |
| dative | vāscellō | vāscellīs |
| accusative | vāscellum | vāscella |
| ablative | vāscellō | vāscellīs |
| vocative | vāscellum | vāscella |
Descendants
- Italo-Romance:
- Rhaeto-Romance:
- Romansch: vaschè, vischi
- Gallo-Italic:
- Piedmontese: vassél
- Gallo-Romance:
From the plural vāscella, reinterpreted as a collective feminine singular noun:
- Italo-Romance:
- Rhaeto-Romance:
- Romansch: vaschella, vischala
- Gallo-Romance:
- Ibero-Romance:
References
- “vascellum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- "vascellum", 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)
- vascellum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- ^ Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “vascĕllum”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volume 14: U–Z, page 193