vascellum

Latin

Etymology

Diminutive of vāsculum.

Noun

vāscellum n (genitive vāscellī); second declension

1. (Late Latin) a small vase or urn

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

• Catalan: vaixell, vaixella
• English: vessel
• French: vaisseau, vaisselle
• Galician: vaixela, baixel (from Catalan)
• Italian: vascello

• Occitan: vaissella
• Piedmontese: vassel
• Portuguese: baixela
• Romansch: vaschè, vaschella, vischi, vischala
• Spanish: vajilla

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.