vase
English edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Middle French vase, from Latin vās. Doublet of vas.
Pronunciation edit
- (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/
- (Canada) IPA(key): [veːz], [väːz], [vaz], [-s], [vɒːz]
- Rhymes: -eɪs
Usage notes edit
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 edit
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 terms edit
Translations edit
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Verb edit
vase (third-person singular simple present vases, present participle vasing, simple past and past participle vased)
- (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.
References edit
- ^ 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.
Anagrams edit
Danish edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from French vase, from Latin vās (“vessel”).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
vase c (singular definite vasen, plural indefinite vaser)
Declension edit
References edit
- “vase” in Den Danske Ordbog
French edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
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 edit
vase f (plural vases)
Derived terms edit
Etymology 2 edit
Inherited from Old French, borrowed from Latin vās.
Noun edit
vase m (plural vases)
Derived terms edit
Descendants edit
Further reading edit
- “vase”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Latin edit
Noun edit
vāse
Norman edit
Etymology edit
Noun edit
vase m (plural vases)
Norwegian Bokmål edit
Etymology edit
From Latin vas, via French vase and German Vase.
Noun edit
vase m (definite singular vasen, indefinite plural vaser, definite plural vasene)
- a vase
References edit
- “vase” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk edit
Etymology edit
From Latin vas, via French vase and German Vase.
Noun edit
vase m (definite singular vasen, indefinite plural vasar, definite plural vasane)
- a vase
References edit
- “vase” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Pali edit
Alternative forms edit
Noun edit
vase
Verb edit
vase
- imperative active second-person singular of vasati (“to dwell”)
- imperative active second-person singular of vasati (“to clothe”)
Swedish edit
Noun edit
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