vascellum

Latin

Etymology

    From vāsculum (small vessel) +‎ -lum (diminutive suffix).

    Noun

    vāscellum n (genitive vāscellī); second declension (Late Latin)

    1. a small vase or urn [4th c. CE][1]

    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:
      • Italian: vascello, vasello
        • Sicilian: vascellu
      • Sicilian: vasceḍḍu
    • Rhaeto-Romance:
    • Gallo-Italic:
      • Piedmontese: vassél
    • Gallo-Romance:
      • Franco-Provençal: vèssél
      • Old Catalan: vaxell
        • Catalan: vaixell (see there for further descendants)
      • Old French: vaissel (see there for further descendants)
      • Old Occitan: vaisselh, vaissel, vaysel, vaysshel, vayshel
        • Occitan: vaissèl, vaisseu
          • Gascon: vaishèth

    From the plural vāscella, reinterpreted as a collective feminine singular noun:

    • Italo-Romance:
    • Rhaeto-Romance:
      • Romansch: vaschella, vischala
    • Gallo-Romance:
    • Ibero-Romance:
      • Old Navarro-Aragonese:
        • Aragonese: vaxiella, vaixella, vaxella, vaixiella
          • Ribagorçan: vaissèlla, visélla
          • Spanish: vajilla
        • Old Galician-Portuguese:
          • Galician: vaixela
          • Portuguese: baixela
        • Old Spanish: vasiella (found in a single Aragonese/Catalan-influenced text)

    References

    1. ^ Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “vascĕllum”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volume 14: U–Z, page 193