vascellum

Latin

Etymology

From vāsculum (“small vessel”) +‎ -lum (diminutive suffix).

Noun

vāscellum n (genitive vāscellī); second declension (Late Latin)

1. a small vase or urn [4th c. CE]

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

	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, ⇒ vasello
    • → Sicilian: vascellu
  • Sicilian: vasceḍḍu
• Rhaeto-Romance:
  • Romansch: vaschè, vischi
• Gallo-Italic:
  • Piedmontese: vassél
• Gallo-Romance:
  • Franco-Provençal: vèssél
  • Old Catalan: vaxell
    • Catalan: vaixell (see there for further descendants)
  • Old French: vaissel (see there for further descendants)
  • Old Occitan: vaisselh, vaissel, vaysel, vaysshel, vayshel
    • Occitan: vaissèl, vaisseu
      • Gascon: vaishèth

From the plural vāscella, reinterpreted as a collective feminine singular noun:

• Italo-Romance:
  • Italian: vascella (archaic plural of vascello)
  • Sicilian: vasceḍḍa
• Rhaeto-Romance:
  • Romansch: vaschella, vischala
• Gallo-Romance:
  • Catalan: vaixella
  • French: vaisselle
  • Occitan: vaissèla, vaissela
    • Gascon: vaishèra
• Ibero-Romance:
  • Old Navarro-Aragonese:
    • Aragonese: vaxiella, vaixella, vaxella, vaixiella
      • Ribagorçan: vaissèlla, visélla
      • → Spanish: vajilla
    • → Old Galician-Portuguese:
      • Galician: vaixela
      • Portuguese: baixela
    • → 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.