vavassor
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English
Noun
vavassor (plural vavassors)
- Alternative form of vavasour
Anagrams
Latin
Alternative forms
Etymology
Perhaps from vassus vassōrum (“vassal of vassals”).
Noun
vavassor m (genitive vavassōris); third declension (Medieval Latin)
Declension
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
- → Italian: valvassore
- → Old Occitan: vavassor, valvassor, vasvassor
- → Old French: vavasour
References
- ^ Frederic Mistral, Lou Tresor dóu Felibrige, 19th cen.
- ^ See
Varvassor on the Catalan Wikipedia.Wikipedia ca.
- 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