vascellum

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Latin

Etymology

From vāsculum (“little vessel”) +‎ -lum (diminutive ending).

Noun

vāscellum n (genitive vāscellī); second declension (Late Latin)

  1. a small vase or urn (attested from the 4th c. CE)[1]

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

singular plural
nominative vāscellum vāscella
genitive vāscellī vāscellōrum
dative vāscellō vāscellīs
accusative vāscellum vāscella
ablative vāscellō vāscellīs
vocative vāscellum vāscella

Descendants

From the plural vāscella, reinterpreted as a collective feminine singular noun:

References

  1. ^ Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “vascĕllum”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volumes 14: U–Z, page 193
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