bascauda

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Brythonic, from Proto-Celtic *baskis (“bundle, load”). More at basket.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [basˈkau̯.da]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [basˈkaːu̯.da]

Noun

bascauda f (genitive bascaudae); first declension

1. (Late Latin) a woven mat or vessel to hold basketwork

Declension

First-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	bascauda	bascaudae
genitive	bascaudae	bascaudārum
dative	bascaudae	bascaudīs
accusative	bascaudam	bascaudās
ablative	bascaudā	bascaudīs
vocative	bascauda	bascaudae

Descendants

• Old French: bascat
  • Norman: basquette
  • → Middle English: basket, bascat, baskot
    • English: basket
      • → Cornish: basket
      • → Irish: bascaed
      • → Welsh: basged
    • Scots: basket
    • Yola: baskaate, baskeat

References

• “bascauda”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “bascauda”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers