vascellum

vascellum

Latin

Etymology

Diminutive of vāsculum.

Noun

vāscellum n (genitive vāscellī); second declension

1. (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

1. http://latinlexicon.org/definition.php?p1=2062153