vase

Borrowed from Middle French vase, from Latin vas.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /vɑːz/, /vɔːz/
• Rhymes: -ɑːz
• (US) IPA^(key): /veɪs/, /veɪz/, /vɑz/

• Audio (US)

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• Rhymes: -eɪs

vase (plural vases)

1. An upright open container used mainly for displaying fresh, dried, or artificial flowers.
2. (architecture) The body of the Corinthian capital.

• AEVs, Save, VESA, Veas, aves, save, vaes

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

• IPA^(key): /vaːsə/, [ˈvæːsə]

vase c (singular definite vasen, plural indefinite vaser)

1. vase

• “vase” in Den Danske Ordbog

• IPA^(key): /vaz/, /vɑz/

• audio (un vase)

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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.

vase f (plural vases)

1. silt, mud

From Old French, borrowed from Latin vas, vasis.

vase m (plural vases)

1. vase

• “vase” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

vāse

1. ablative singular of vāsis

From Latin vās (“vessel”).

vase m (plural vases)

1. (Jersey) vase

From Latin vas, via French vase and German Vase.

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

1. a vase

• “vase” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

From Latin vas, via French vase and German Vase.

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

1. a vase

• “vase” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

vase

1. vocative singular of vasā (“grease”)