See also: Vase, vaše, VASE, and ваше

EnglishEdit

 
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A Chinese vase.

EtymologyEdit

Borrowed from Middle French vase, from Latin vās.

PronunciationEdit

Usage notesEdit

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.

NounEdit

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.

Derived termsEdit

TranslationsEdit

ReferencesEdit

  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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DanishEdit

 
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EtymologyEdit

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

PronunciationEdit

  • IPA(key): /vaːsə/, [ˈvæːsə]

NounEdit

vase c (singular definite vasen, plural indefinite vaser)

  1. vase

DeclensionEdit

ReferencesEdit

FrenchEdit

PronunciationEdit

Etymology 1Edit

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.

NounEdit

vase f (plural vases)

  1. silt, mud
Derived termsEdit

Etymology 2Edit

Inherited from Old French, borrowed from Latin vās.

NounEdit

vase m (plural vases)

  1. vase
Derived termsEdit
DescendantsEdit
  • 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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LatinEdit

NounEdit

vāse

  1. ablative singular of vās

NormanEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Latin vās (vessel).

NounEdit

vase m (plural vases)

  1. (Jersey) vase

Norwegian BokmålEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Latin vas, via French vase and German Vase.

NounEdit

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

  1. a vase

ReferencesEdit

Norwegian NynorskEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Latin vas, via French vase and German Vase.

NounEdit

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

  1. a vase

ReferencesEdit

PaliEdit

Alternative formsEdit

NounEdit

vase

  1. vocative singular of vasā (grease)

VerbEdit

vase

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

SwedishEdit

NounEdit

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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