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vase

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See also: Vase, vaše, VASE, and ваше

English

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A Chinese vase.

Etymology

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Borrowed from Middle French vase, from Latin vās. Doublet of vas.

Pronunciation

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  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /vɑːz/, (obsolete) /vɔːz/[1]
    • Audio (UK):(file)
  • Rhymes: -ɑːz
  • (General American) IPA(key): /veɪ̯s/, /veɪ̯z/, /vɑz/, (obsolete) /vɔz/[2]
  • (Australia) IPA(key): /vɐːz/, /væɪ̯s/
  • (Canada) IPA(key): [veːz], [väːz], [vaz], [-s], [vɒːz]
  • Rhymes: -eɪs
  • There is some tendency in American English to use the pronunciation /vɑz/ for more expensive and/or elegant items, and /veɪ̯s/ for more everyday ones. See Simpson's 2018 quotation.

Noun

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vase (plural vases)

  1. An upright open container used mainly for displaying fresh, dried, or artificial flowers.
    a vase of flowers
    • 1983, Bill Oddie, Gone Birding, London: Methuen, page 110:
      [T]hey ate delicious food in a delightful dining-room that looked like a Cornish tea shoppe, with vases of flowers and fascinating wildlife pictures all over the walls.
    • 2018, Alan Kooi Simpson, A Eulogy for George H. W. Bush, Washington National Cathedral:
      I hope you know the difference between a vase (/veɪ̯s/) and a vase (/vɑz/)? Thirty-five bucks.
  2. (architecture) The body of the Corinthian capital.

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Verb

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vase (third-person singular simple present vases, present participle vasing, simple past and past participle vased)

  1. (transitive) To place in a vase or similar container.
    • 2009, Emily Bobo, Marvin Bell, Fugue, page 21:
      She bought only pastel pencils and vased them in cups, great wooden bouquets in mugs on nightstands and kitchen chairs.
    • 2021, Christine DePetrillo, Wolf Love, page 172:
      After she'd finished, she picked a bouquet of wildflowers and vased them in an old mason jar. That seemed a fitting centerpiece for the table.

References

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  1. ^ Ross, Alan S. C. (1954), “Linguistic Class Indicators in Present-Day English”, in Neuphilologische Mitteilungen‎[1], volume 55, number 1, Helsinki: Modern Language Society, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 41.
  2. ^ Krapp, George Philip (1925), The English Language in America‎[2], volume II, New York: Century Co. for the Modern Language Association of America, →OCLC, page 49.

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Danish

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Etymology

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Borrowed from French vase, from Latin vās (“vessel”).

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /vaːsə/, [ˈvæːsə]

Noun

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vase c (singular definite vasen, plural indefinite vaser)

  1. vase

Declension

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Declension of vase
common
gender 		singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative vase vasen vaser vaserne
genitive vases vasens vasers vasernes

Descendants

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  • → Icelandic: vasi

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French

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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From Middle French, from Middle Dutch wase (“mud, silt, wet ground, clod of dirt, grass”), from *Old Dutch waso, from Proto-Germanic *wasô (“moisture, ground”), from Proto-Indo-European *wes- (“moist, wet”). More at ouze.

Noun

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vase f (plural vases)

  1. silt, mud
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Etymology 2

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    Inherited from Middle French vase, borrowed from Latin vās.

    Noun

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    vase m (plural vases)

    1. vase
    Derived terms
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    Descendants
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    • → Danish: vase
    • → German: Vase (see there for further descendants)
    • → Hungarian: váza
    • → Hunsrik: Vaas
    • → Luxembourgish: Vas
    • → Norwegian: vase
    • → Romanian: vază
    • → Russian: ваза (vaza) (see there for further descendants)
    • → Swedish: vas

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    Latin

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    Noun

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    vāse

    1. ablative singular of vās

    Middle French

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    Etymology

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    Borrowed from Latin vās.

    Noun

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    vase m (plural vases)

    1. vase

    Descendants

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    • French: vase (see there for further descendants)
    • → Dutch: vaas
    • → English: vase
    • → Irish: vása
    • → Norman: vase

    Norman

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    Etymology

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    Borrowed from Middle French vase.

    Noun

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    vase m (plural vases)

    1. (Jersey) vase

    Norwegian Bokmål

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    Etymology

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    From Latin vas, via French vase and German Vase.

    Noun

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    vase m (definite singular vasen, indefinite plural vaser, definite plural vasene)

    1. a vase

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    Norwegian Nynorsk

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    Etymology

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    From Latin vas, via French vase and German Vase.

    Noun

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    vase m (definite singular vasen, indefinite plural vasar, definite plural vasane)

    1. a vase

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    Pali

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    Alternative forms

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    Noun

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    vase

    1. vocative singular of vasā (“grease”)

    Verb

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    vase

    1. imperative active second-person singular of vasati (“to dwell”)
    2. imperative active second-person singular of vasati (“to clothe”)

    Swedish

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    Pronunciation

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    Noun

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    vase c

    1. sheaf (nowadays mostly as a heraldic symbol, used in the coat of arms of the House of Vasa ruling Sweden 1523–1654)
      Near-synonym: kärve
    2. (Gothenburg dialect) a small boy

    Declension

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    Declension of vase
    nominative genitive
    singular indefinite vase vases
    definite vasen vasens
    plural indefinite vasar vasars
    definite vasarna vasarnas

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