vascellum

Latin

Etymology

Diminutive of vāsculum.

Noun

vāscellum n (genitive vāscellī); second declension

(Late Latin) a small vase or urn[1]

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case	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
Padanian:
- Piedmontese: vassél
- Romansch: vaschè, vischi
Northern Gallo-Romance:
- Franco-Provençal: vèssél
- Old French: vaissel
  - Middle French: vaissel
    - French: vaisseau
  - → Middle English: vessel (see there for further descendants)
Southern Gallo-Romance:
- Catalan: vaixell
  - → Galician: baixel
- Old Occitan: vaisselh, vaissel, vaysel, vaysshel, vayshel
  - Occitan: vaissèl, vaisseu
    Gascon: vaishèth
⇒ Vulgar Latin: vāscella (plural reinterpreted as a collective feminine singular)
- Padanian:
  - Romansch: vaschella, vischala
- Northern Gallo-Romance:
  - French: vaisselle
- Southern Gallo-Romance:
  - Aragonese: vaxiella, vaixella, vaxella, vaixiella
    Ribagorçan: vaissèlla, visélla
    - → Old Spanish: baxilla
      - Spanish: vajilla
  - Catalan: vaixella
    - → Galician: vaixela
    - → Portuguese: baixela
  - Occitan: vaissèla, vaissela
    Gascon: vaishèra
  - → Old Spanish: vasiella (found in a single Aragonese/Catalan-influenced text)

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

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