vascellum

Latin

Etymology

From vāsculum (“little vessel”) +‎ -lum (diminutive ending).

Noun

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

1. a small vase or urn (attested from the 4th c. CE)

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

• Italo-Romance:
  • Italian: vascello
• North Italian:
  • Piedmontese: vassél
  • Romansch: vaschè, vischi
• Gallo-Romance:
  • Catalan: vaixell
    • → Galician: baixel
  • Franco-Provençal: vèssél
  • Old French: vaissel (see there for further descendants)
  • Gascon: vaishèth
  • Old Occitan: vaisselh, vaissel, vaysel, vaysshel, vayshel
    • Occitan: vaissèl, vaisseu

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

• North Italian:
  • Romansch: vaschella, vischala
• Gallo-Romance:
  • Catalan: vaixella
  • Occitan: vaissèla, vaissela
  • French: vaisselle
  • Gascon: vaishèra
• Ibero-Romance:
  • Navarro-Aragonese: [Term?]
    • Aragonese: vaxiella, vaixella, vaxella, vaixiella; (Ribagorçan:) vaissèlla, visélla
      • → Spanish: vajilla
    • → Old Galician-Portuguese: [Term?]
      • Galician: vaixela
      • Portuguese: baixela
    • → Old Spanish: vasiella (found in a single Aragonese/Catalan-influenced text)
• Unsorted
  • → Sicilian: vasceḍḍa

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.