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vase

See also: Vase, vaše, VASE, and ваше

English

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A Chinese vase.

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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Usage notes

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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

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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.

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Translations

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Verb

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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.

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  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.

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Danish

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Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /vaːsə/, [ˈvæːsə]

Noun

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vase c (singular definite vasen, plural indefinite vaser)

  1. vase

Declension

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

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French

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /vaz/, /vɑz/
  • Audio; “un vase”:(file)

Etymology 1

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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

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vase f (plural vases)

  1. silt, mud
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Derived terms

Etymology 2

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Inherited from Old French, borrowed from Latin vās.

Noun

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vase m (plural vases)

  1. vase
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Descendants
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  • → 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

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Latin

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Noun

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vāse

  1. ablative singular of vās

Norman

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Etymology

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From Latin vās (“vessel”).

Noun

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vase m (plural vases)

  1. (Jersey) vase

Norwegian Bokmål

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Etymology

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From Latin vas, via French vase and German Vase.

Noun

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

  1. a vase

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Norwegian Nynorsk

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Etymology

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From Latin vas, via French vase and German Vase.

Noun

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

  1. a vase

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Pali

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Alternative forms

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Alternative forms

Noun

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vase

  1. vocative singular of vasā (“grease”)

Verb

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vase

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

Swedish

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Pronunciation

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Noun

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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

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