vase

See also: Vase, vaše, VASE, and ваше

English
A Chinese vase.

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French vase, from Latin vās.

Pronunciation
  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /vɑːz/, (obsolete) /vɔːz/
    • Audio (UK)(file)
  • Rhymes: -ɑːz
  • (General American) IPA(key): /veɪs/, /veɪz/, /vɑz/, (obsolete) /vɔz/[1]
    • Audio (US)(file)
  • (General Australian) IPA(key): /vɐːz/, /væes/
  • Rhymes: -eɪs

Usage notes

There is some tendency in American English to use the pronunciation /vɑz/ for more expensive and/or elegant items, and /veɪs/ for more everyday ones.

Noun

vase (plural vases)

  1. An upright open container used mainly for displaying fresh, dried, or artificial flowers.
  2. (architecture) The body of the Corinthian capital.

Translations

References
  1. Krapp, George Philip (1925) The English Language in America‎, volume II, New York: Century Co. for the Modern Language Association of America, OCLC 2223337, page 49.

Anagrams

Danish

Etymology

Borrowed from French vase, from Latin vās (“vessel”).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /vaːsə/, [ˈvæːsə]

Noun

vase c (singular definite vasen, plural indefinite vaser)

  1. vase

Declension
Declension of vase
common
gender		 Singular Plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative vase vasen vaser vaserne
genitive vases vasens vasers vasernes

References

French

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /vaz/, /vɑz/
  • audio (un vase)(file)

Etymology 1

From Middle French, from Middle Dutch wase (“mud, silt, wet ground, clod of dirt, grass”), from *Old Dutch waso, from Proto-Germanic *wasô (“moisture, ground”), from Proto-Indo-European *wes- (“moist, wet”). More at ouze.

Noun

vase f (plural vases)

  1. silt, mud
Derived terms
Derived terms

Etymology 2

From Old French, borrowed from Latin vas, vasis.

Noun

vase m (plural vases)

  1. vase
Derived terms
Descendants
  • → Danish: vase
  • → German: Vase (see there for further descendants)
  • → Hungarian: váza
  • → Hunsrik: Vaas
  • → Luxembourgish: Vas
  • → Norwegian: vase
  • → Romanian: vază
  • → Russian: ваза (vaza) (see there for further descendants)
  • → Swedish: vas

Further reading

Latin

Noun

vāse

  1. ablative singular of vās

Norman

Etymology

From Latin vās (“vessel”).

Noun

vase m (plural vases)

  1. (Jersey) vase

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Latin vas, via French vase and German Vase.

Noun

vase m (definite singular vasen, indefinite plural vaser, definite plural vasene)

  1. a vase

References

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Latin vas, via French vase and German Vase.

Noun

vase m (definite singular vasen, indefinite plural vasar, definite plural vasane)

  1. a vase

References

Pali

Alternative forms
Alternative forms
  • 𑀯𑀲𑁂 (Brahmi script)
  • वसे (Devanagari script)
  • ৰসে (Bengali script)
  • වසෙ (Sinhalese script)
  • ဝသေ (Burmese script)
  • วเส or วะเส (Thai script)
  • ᩅᩈᩮ (Tai Tham script)
  • ວເສ or ວະເສ (Lao script)
  • វសេ (Khmer script)
  • 𑅇𑄥𑄬 (Chakma script)

Noun

vase

  1. vocative singular of vasā (“grease”)

Verb

vase

  1. imperative active second-person singular of vasati (“to dwell”)
  2. imperative active second-person singular of vasati (“to clothe”)

Swedish

Noun

vase c

  1. sheaf, nowadays mostly as a heraldic symbol. Used in the coat of arms of the House of Vasa ruling Sweden 1523–1654
  2. (Gothenburg dialect) small boy

Anagrams
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