flasco

Latin

Alternative forms

  • flasca, frascia, flascus, flascōnus
  • flascula, flasculus

Etymology

Borrowed from Frankish *flaskā (“bottle, flask”), from Proto-Germanic *flaskǭ.

Noun

flascō m or f (genitive flascōnis); third declension

  1. (Late Latin) bottle
  2. (Late Latin) a glass or earthenware vessel for conserving wine
  3. (Late Latin) portable barrel

Usage notes

  • Usually masculine, but a feminine use is known from Alcuin, perhaps following the source Germanic word. Feminine gender could be found in forms with other endings, such as flasca, flascōna.

Declension

Third-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative flascō flascōnēs
genitive flascōnis flascōnum
dative flascōnī flascōnibus
accusative flascōnem flascōnēs
ablative flascōne flascōnibus
vocative flascō flascōnēs

Descendants

  • Catalan: flascó
  • Old French: flascon, flacon, flagon (“small bottle”)
  • → Byzantine Greek: φλασκίον (phlaskíon), φλάσκη (phláskē), φλάσκα (phláska)
  • Iberian:
  • Italian: fiasco (see there for further descendants)
  • Old Occitan: flasca
  • → Hungarian: flaska
  • Sicilian: ciascu, sascu

References

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