vassalo

Galician

vassalo m (plural vassalos, reintegrationist norm)

From Medieval Latin vassallus (“manservant, domestic, retainer”), from vassus (“servant”), from Gaulish uassos (“young man, squire”).

vassalo m (plural vassalos)

vassal; subject
- 13th century CE, Alfonso X of Castile, Cantigas de Santa Maria, Códice de los músicos, cantiga 3 (facsimile):
  
  Eſta é de como ſanta maria fez cobrar a Theophilo a carta que fezera cono demo u ſe tornou ſeu vaſſalo.
  This one is (about) how Holy Mary recovered for Theophilos the contract he had made with the Devil and became his vassal.

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese vassalo, from Medieval Latin vassallus (“manservant, domestic, retainer”), from vassus (“servant”), from Gaulish uassos (“young man, squire”).

vassalo m (plural vassalos)

vassalo (feminine vassala, masculine plural vassalos, feminine plural vassalas, not comparable)