flasco
Latin
Alternative forms
- flasca, frascia, flascus, flascōnus
- flascula, flasculus
Etymology
Borrowed from Frankish *flaska (“bottle, flask”), from Proto-Germanic *flaskǭ.
Noun
flascō ? (genitive flascōnis); third declension
- (Late Latin) bottle
- (Late Latin) a glass or earthenware vessel for conserving wine
- (Late Latin) portable barrel
Declension
Third-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | flascō | flascōnēs |
Genitive | flascōnis | flascōnum |
Dative | flascōnī | flascōnibus |
Accusative | flascōnem | flascōnēs |
Ablative | flascōne | flascōnibus |
Vocative | flascō | flascōnēs |
Descendants
- Catalan: flascó
- Old French: flascon, flacon, flagon (“small bottle”)
- Anglo-Norman: flascon
- → Middle English: flask, flaske
- English: flask
- Scots: flask, flas
- → Middle English: flask, flaske
- Middle French: flascon, flacon
- French: flacon (see there for further descendants)
- → Middle English: flagon, flakon
- English: flagon
- Norman: fllac
- ⇒ Old French: flagonet
- Middle French: flaconnet
- Anglo-Norman: flascon
- → Byzantine Greek: φλασκίον (phlaskíon), φλάσκη (phláskē), φλάσκα (phláska)
- Greek: φλασκί (flaskí), φλάσκα (fláska)
- → Arabic: فِلَسْقِيَّة (filasqiyya)
- Iberian:
- Asturian: frascu
- Old Portuguese: frasco
- Galician: frasco
- Portuguese: frasco
- Spanish: frasco
- → Cebuano: prasko
- Italian: fiasco (see there for further descendants)
- Old Occitan: flasca
- Catalan: flasca
- Occitan: flasca
- → Hungarian: flaska
- Sicilian: ciascu, sascu
References
- flasca 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)
- Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976), “flasco”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: E. J. Brill