vaso

See also: vašo and vaso-

Finnish

Verb

vaso

1. inflection of vasoa:
   1. present active indicative connegative
   2. second-person singular present imperative
   3. second-person singular present active imperative connegative

Anagrams

• Savo, savo

Galician

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese vaso, from Latin vāsum.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈba.sʊ]

Noun

vaso m (plural vasos)

1. drinking glass
2. glassful
3. drinking vessel
   • 1325, E. Portela Silva, editor, La región del obispado de Tuy en los siglos XII a XV. Una sociedad en expansión y en la crisis, Santiago: El Eco Franciscano, page 396:

     Et mando y conmigo a esse moesteyro a minna cama que eu ouver a ora da minna morte e huun vaso de prata de huun marco ou huna taça

     And I bequeath to this monastery my bed, the one I happen to have at the time of my death, and a silver goblet, weighting a mark, and a cup

4. vase; urn
5. (of a horse) hoof

References

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “vaso”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “vaso”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “vaso”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “vaso”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “vaso”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

Italian

vaso

Etymology

From Latin vāsum.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈva.zo/
• Rhymes: -azo
• Hyphenation: và‧so

• Audio:

  (file)

Noun

vaso m (plural vasi, diminutive vasétto or vasettìno or (familiar, used in reference to babies) vasìno, augmentative vasóne, derogatory vasùccio)

1. jar, pot
2. vase

Derived terms

• svasare
• vasaio
• vasetto
• vasino
• vaso da notte

 

Related terms

• vassoio

Descendants

• → Greek: βάζο (vázo)
• → Ottoman Turkish: وازو (vazo)
  • Turkish: vazo
  • → Armenian: վազօ (vazō)
• → Polish: wazon

Further reading

• vaso in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Latin

Noun

vāsō

1. dative/ablative singular of vāsum

References

• vaso 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)

Neapolitan

Etymology

Inherited from Latin bāsium. Compare Italian bacio.

Pronunciation

• (Naples) IPA^(key): [ˈvaː.sə]

Noun

vaso m (plural vase)

1. kiss

References

• AIS: Sprach- und Sachatlas Italiens und der Südschweiz [Linguistic and Ethnographic Atlas of Italy and Southern Switzerland] – map 68: “il bacio” – on navigais-web.pd.istc.cnr.it

Portuguese

Alternative forms

• vazo (obsolete)

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese vaso, from Latin vāsum (“vessel; vase”).

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈva.zu/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈva.zu/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈva.zo/

 

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈva.zu/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈva.zu/
  • (Northern Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈba.zu/

• Homophone: vazo
• Rhymes: -azu
• Hyphenation: va‧so

Noun

vaso m (plural vasos)

1. vessel (container of liquid)

   Synonyms: jarra, jarro

2. vase (container for flowers)
3. (biology) vessel (tube or canal that carries fluid)

   Synonyms: canal, tubo

4. (Brazil) toilet (device for depositing human waste and then flushing it)

   Synonyms: (Brazil) bacia, (Brazil) privada, (Portugal) retrete, (Portugal) sanita, (Brazil, slang) trono, (Brazil) vaso sanitário

Hyponyms

• (container of liquid): ânfora, cântaro
• (tube or canal that carries fluid): artéria, capilar, traqueia, veia

Derived terms

• vaso sanitário
• vaso-

Descendants

• → Malay: pasu (“vase; pot”)
  • Indonesian: pasu

Spanish

Etymology

Inherited from Old Spanish vaso, from Latin vāsum, from vās.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbaso/ [ˈba.so]

• Audio (Colombia):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -aso
• Syllabification: va‧so
• Homophones: baso, (Latin America) bazo

Noun

vaso m (plural vasos)

1. drinking glass

   Synonym: copa

2. glassful
3. vessel (container)
4. vessel (tube or canal that carries fluid in an animal or plant)

Usage notes

• Vaso is a false friend, and does not mean vase. The Spanish word for vase is jarrón. However, vaso's Latin ancestor, vāsum, meant "vase."

Derived terms

(diminutive vasito)

• culo de vaso
• la gota que colmó el vaso
• posavasos
• vaso comunicante
• vaso de elección
• vaso de expansión
• vaso de precipitados
• vaso sanguíneo

 

Related terms

• vascular
• vasculoso
• vasija

 

Descendants

• → Basque: baso
• → Hiligaynon: baso
• → Kapampangan: basu
• → Karao: baso
• → Maguindanao: basu
• → Tagalog: baso

Further reading

• “vaso”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10