vase
EnglishEdit
EtymologyEdit
Borrowed from Middle French vase, from Latin vās.
PronunciationEdit
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /vɑːz/, (obsolete) /vɔːz/
Audio (UK) (file)
- Rhymes: -ɑːz
- (General American) IPA(key): /veɪs/, /veɪz/, /vɑz/, (obsolete) /vɔz/[1]
Audio (US) (file)
- (General Australian) IPA(key): /vɐːz/, /væes/
- Rhymes: -eɪs
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)
- An upright open container used mainly for displaying fresh, dried, or artificial flowers.
- a vase of flowers
- (architecture) The body of the Corinthian capital.
Derived termsEdit
TranslationsEdit
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ReferencesEdit
- ^ 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.
AnagramsEdit
DanishEdit
EtymologyEdit
Borrowed from French vase, from Latin vās (“vessel”).
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
vase c (singular definite vasen, plural indefinite vaser)
DeclensionEdit
ReferencesEdit
- “vase” in Den Danske Ordbog
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)
Derived termsEdit
Etymology 2Edit
Inherited from Old French, borrowed from Latin vās.
NounEdit
vase m (plural vases)
Derived termsEdit
DescendantsEdit
Further readingEdit
- “vase”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
LatinEdit
NounEdit
vāse
NormanEdit
EtymologyEdit
NounEdit
vase m (plural vases)
Norwegian BokmålEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Latin vas, via French vase and German Vase.
NounEdit
vase m (definite singular vasen, indefinite plural vaser, definite plural vasene)
- a vase
ReferencesEdit
- “vase” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian NynorskEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Latin vas, via French vase and German Vase.
NounEdit
vase m (definite singular vasen, indefinite plural vasar, definite plural vasane)
- a vase
ReferencesEdit
- “vase” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
PaliEdit
Alternative formsEdit
NounEdit
vase
VerbEdit
vase
- imperative active second-person singular of vasati (“to dwell”)
- imperative active second-person singular of vasati (“to clothe”)
SwedishEdit
NounEdit
vase c
- sheaf, nowadays mostly as a heraldic symbol. Used in the coat of arms of the House of Vasa ruling Sweden 1523–1654
- (Gothenburg dialect) small boy