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vassallus
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Latin
Alternative forms
- vasallus, vassalus, vassallis, bassallus, fasellus, fassellus
Etymology
Extended form of vassus, from Gaulish *wassos (“young man, squire”), from Proto-Celtic *uɸostos (“servant”) (compare Old Irish foss and Welsh gwas). The form vassus is first attested in the Salic Law of the 6th century, meaning “servant, serf”; “feudal vassal” is attested by the 9th century.
Pronunciation
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [vasˈsal.lus]
Noun
vassallus m (genitive vassallī); second declension (Medieval Latin)
Declension
Second-declension noun.
Derived terms
Descendants
- Old French: vassal
- Galician: vasalo
- Italian: vassallo
- Old Occitan:
- Portuguese: vassalo
- Romanian: vasal
- Old Spanish: vasallo, uasallo, uassallo, uasiello, vassallo
- Spanish: vasallo
- Sicilian: vassaḍḍu
- → Finnish: vasalli, vasallius; vasallimaa; vasallivaltio
- → Hungarian: vazallus
- → Irish: vasáilleach
References
- "vassallus", 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)
- R. E. Latham, D. R. Howlett, & R. K. Ashdowne, editors (1975–2013), “vassallus”, in Dictionary of Medieval Latin from British Sources, London: Oxford University Press for the British Academy, →ISBN, →OCLC
- Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976), “vassallus”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: E. J. Brill, pages 1061–63
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