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vase

/ˈveɪs/VAYS
/ˈveɪs/VAYS

Meaninga vessel

Common meaning: an ornamental jar

Journey through time

  1. Aryan root · reconstructed√WAS‘clothe, to put on clothes’No written record; from Skeat’s list of Aryan roots, no. 362, p. 743 · scan
  2. Latinvās, vāsis‘a vessel’
  3. Frenchvase
  4. Englishvase‘an ornamental jar’ · today

vas also in: vascular

Sources & notes

Meaning: “Meaning” is the sense that emerges from the word’s roots; “Common meaning” is today’s everyday sense. Both written by us.

Pronunciation

  • UK IPA: converted from the US form by rule (unchecked). Respelling: generated.
  • No UK recording; the speaker uses your device’s en-GB voice.
  • US IPA: CMUdict (BSD-2), converted to IPA by rule. Respelling: generated.
  • No US recording; the speaker uses your device’s en-US voice.

Origin: Built on Latin vās ‘a vessel’.

Did you know: our wording, based on Lewis & Short, Latin Dictionary (1879), entry vās, p. 1959 · dictionary scan

Roots

Related words

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