vavassor
English edit
Noun edit
vavassor (plural vavassors)
- Alternative form of vavasour
Anagrams edit
Latin edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
Perhaps from vassus vassōrum (“vassal of vassals”).
Noun edit
vavassor m (genitive vavassōris); third declension (Medieval Latin)
Declension edit
Third-declension noun.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | vavassor | vavassōrēs |
| Genitive | vavassōris | vavassōrum |
| Dative | vavassōrī | vavassōribus |
| Accusative | vavassōrem | vavassōrēs |
| Ablative | vavassōre | vavassōribus |
| Vocative | vavassor | vavassōrēs |
Descendants edit
- → Italian: valvassore
- → Old French: vavasour
References edit
- vavassor 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)
- Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976) “vavassor”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: E. J. Brill