vase

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See also: Vase, vaše, VASE, and ваше

English[edit]

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A Chinese vase.

Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from Middle French vase, from Latin vās. Doublet of vas.

Pronunciation[edit]

Usage notes[edit]

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[edit]

vase (plural vases)

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

Derived terms[edit]

Translations[edit]

Verb[edit]

vase (third-person singular simple present vases, present participle vasing, simple past and past participle vased)

  1. (transitive) To place in a vase or similar container.
    • 2009, Emily Bobo, Marvin Bell, Fugue, page 21:
      She bought only pastel pencils and vased them in cups, great wooden bouquets in mugs on nightstands and kitchen chairs.
    • 2021, Christine DePetrillo, Wolf Love, page 172:
      After she'd finished, she picked a bouquet of wildflowers and vased them in an old mason jar. That seemed a fitting centerpiece for the table.

References[edit]

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

Anagrams[edit]

Danish[edit]

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Etymology[edit]

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

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /vaːsə/, [ˈvæːsə]

Noun[edit]

vase c (singular definite vasen, plural indefinite vaser)

  1. vase

Declension[edit]

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

References[edit]

French[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

Etymology 1[edit]

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[edit]

vase f (plural vases)

  1. silt, mud
Derived terms[edit]
Derived terms

Etymology 2[edit]

Inherited from Old French, borrowed from Latin vās.

Noun[edit]

vase m (plural vases)

  1. vase
Derived terms[edit]
Descendants[edit]
  • → 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[edit]

Latin[edit]

Noun[edit]

vāse

  1. ablative singular of vās

Norman[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Latin vās (“vessel”).

Noun[edit]

vase m (plural vases)

  1. (Jersey) vase

Norwegian Bokmål[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Latin vas, via French vase and German Vase.

Noun[edit]

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

  1. a vase

References[edit]

Norwegian Nynorsk[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Latin vas, via French vase and German Vase.

Noun[edit]

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

  1. a vase

References[edit]

Pali[edit]

Alternative forms[edit]

Alternative forms

Noun[edit]

vase

  1. vocative singular of vasā (“grease”)

Verb[edit]

vase

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

Swedish[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

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[edit]

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