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Old Spanish
Etymology
Probably borrowed from Old Aragonese or Old Catalan, from Late Latin vāscella, plural of vāscellum, from Latin vāsculum, diminutive of vās (“vessel, container”). The term only appears in the Fazienda de Ultramar, a text full of Aragonese and Catalan forms. Compare modern Spanish vajilla.
Pronunciation
Noun
vasiella f (plural vasiellas)
- a collection of vessels, dishes, fonts and other containers
c. 1200, Almerich, Fazienda de Ultramar, f. 76r:Todo lo que auia. y metio zorobabel. e ſos conpãneros por mandado de cyrus reẏ de ꝑſia toda la uaſiella de oro q̃ fizo el rey ſalomõ pora lacaſa del c̃ador.- All that was there had been placed by Zerubbabel and his company by command of Cyrus, King of Persia; all the vessels of gold that King Solomon had made for the House of the Creator.