flasco

Latin

Alternative forms

• flasca, frascia, flascus, flascōnus
• flascula, flasculus

Etymology

Borrowed from Frankish *flaska (“bottle, flask”).

Noun

flascō ? (genitive flascōnis); third declension

1. (Late Latin) bottle
2. (Late Latin) a glass or earthenware vessel for conserving wine
3. (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 French: flascon, flacon
    • French: flacon (see there for further descendants)
    • → Middle English: flagon, flakon
      • English: flagon
  • Norman: fllac
  • ⇒ Old French: flagonet
    • Middle French: flaconnet
• Greek:
  • → Ancient Greek: φλασκίον (phlaskíon)
  • → Greek: φλασκί (flaskí), φλάσκα (fláska),
• Iberian:
  • Asturian: frascu
  • Old Galician-Portuguese: frasco
    • Galician: frasco
    • Portuguese: frasco
  • Spanish: frasco
• 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