bascauda

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Brythonic, from Proto-Celtic *baskis (“bundle, load”). More at basket.

Pronunciation

(Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [basˈkau̯.da]
(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [basˈkaːu̯.d̪a]

Noun

bascauda f (genitive bascaudae); first declension

(Late Latin) a woven mat or vessel to hold basketwork

Declension

First-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	bascauda	bascaudae
genitive	bascaudae	bascaudārum
dative	bascaudae	bascaudīs
accusative	bascaudam	bascaudās
ablative	bascaudā	bascaudīs
vocative	bascauda	bascaudae

Descendants

Old French: bascat
- Norman: basquette
- → Middle English: basket, bascat, baskot
  - English: basket
    - → Cornish: basket
    - → Irish: bascaed
    - → Welsh: basged
  - Scots: basket
  - Yola: baskaate, baskeat

References

“bascauda”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“bascauda”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers