васіліск

• vasilisk — Łacinka (Belarusian Latin alphabet)

Either cognate or borrowing of Russian василиск (vasilisk) or Ukrainian василіск (vasylisk). Likely either inherited from Old East Slavic василискъ (vasiliskŭ) or borrowed from Old Church Slavonic василискъ (vasiliskŭ), ultimately from Byzantine Greek βασιλίσκος (basilískos). Alternatively, might be borrowed from German Basilisk or Latin basiliscus and modified under the influence of Greek borrowings like Васи́лий (Vasílij).

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васілі́ск • (vasilísk) m animal (genitive васілі́ска, nominative plural васілі́скі, genitive plural васілі́скаў)

1. (mythology) basilisk (mythological or heraldic creature)
2. (zoology) basilisk, a tree-dwelling lizard of the genus Basiliscus

• “васіліск” in Belarusian–Russian dictionaries and Belarusian dictionaries at slounik.org
• Melnychuk, O. S., editor (1982–2012), “василіск”, in Етимологічний словник української мови [Etymological Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language] (in Ukrainian), Kyiv: Naukova Dumka
• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “василиск”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress