bascauda

Latin

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /basˈkau̯.da/, [bäs̠ˈkäu̯d̪ä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /basˈkau̯.da/, [bäsˈkäːu̯d̪ä]

Noun

bascauda f (genitive bascaudae); first declension

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

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case	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, baskot
    • English: basket
    • 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