# vase
## English
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /vɑːz/, (obsolete) /vɔːz/
** Audio (UK):(file)
* Rhymes: -ɑːz
* (General American) IPA: /veɪs/, /veɪz/, /vɑz/, (obsolete) /vɔz/
** Audio (US):(file)
* (General Australian) IPA: /vɐːz/, /væes/
* (Canada) IPA: [veːz], [väːz], [vaz], [-s], [vɒːz]
* Rhymes: -eɪs

#### Usage notes

There is some tendency in American English to use the pronunciation /vɑz/ for more expensive and/or elegant items, and /veɪs/ for more everyday ones.

### Noun

vase (plural vases)
* An upright open container used mainly for displaying fresh, dried, or artificial flowers.
    a vase of flowers
* (architecture) The body of the Corinthian capital.

#### Derived terms

* celery vase
* dirty trick vase
* lachrymal vase
* lacrimal vase
* name vase
* stirrup vase
* vase breath
* vase clock
* vaseful
* vaseless
* vaselike

#### Translations
### Verb

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

* ↑ Krapp, George Philip (1925) The English Language in America‎, volume II, New York: Century Co. for the Modern Language Association of America, →OCLC, page 49.

### Anagrams

* save, AEVs, Aves, aves, Veas, vaes, seva, Esav, Save, VAEs, VESA

## Danish
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /vaːsə/, [ˈvæːsə]

### Noun

vase c (singular definite vasen, plural indefinite vaser)
* vase

#### Declension
### References

* “vase” in Den Danske Ordbog

## French
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /vaz/ ~ /vɑz/
* Audio; “un vase”:(file)

### Etymology 1

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

vase f (plural vases)
* silt, mud

##### Derived terms

* envaser
* vasard
* vaseux
* vasouiller

### Etymology 2

Inherited from Old French, borrowed from Latin vās.

#### Noun

vase m (plural vases)
* vase

##### Derived terms

* en vase clos
* la goutte d’eau qui fait déborder le vase
* vase communicant

##### Descendants

* → 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

### Further reading

* “vase”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

## Latin
### Noun

vāse
* ablative singular of vās

## Norman
### Etymology

From Latin vās (“vessel”).

### Noun

vase m (plural vases)
* (Jersey) vase

## Norwegian Bokmål
### Etymology

From Latin vas, via French vase and German Vase.

### Noun

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

### References

* “vase” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

## Norwegian Nynorsk
### Etymology

From Latin vas, via French vase and German Vase.

### Noun

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

### References

* “vase” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

## Pali
### Alternative forms

* 𑀯𑀲𑁂 (Brahmi script)
* वसे (Devanagari script)
* ৰসে (Bengali script)
* වසෙ (Sinhalese script)
* ဝသေ (Burmese script)
* วเส or วะเส (Thai script)
* ᩅᩈᩮ (Tai Tham script)
* ວເສ or ວະເສ (Lao script)
* វសេ (Khmer script)
* 𑅇𑄥𑄬 (Chakma script)

### Noun

vase
* vocative singular of vasā (“grease”)

### Verb

vase
* imperative active second-person singular of vasati (“to dwell”)
* imperative active second-person singular of vasati (“to clothe”)

## Swedish
### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)

### Noun

vase c
* sheaf, nowadays mostly as a heraldic symbol. Used in the coat of arms of the House of Vasa ruling Sweden 1523–1654
* (Gothenburg dialect) small boy

### Anagrams

* Evas, Svea, avse