vassalo

vassalo m (plural vassalos, reintegrationist norm)

1. reintegrationist spelling of vasalo

• “vassalo” in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (2014).

From Medieval Latin vassallus (“manservant, domestic, retainer”), from vassus (“servant”), from Gaulish uassos (“young man, squire”).

• IPA^(key): /va.ˈs̺a.l̪o/

vassalo m (plural vassalos)

1. vassal; subject
   • a. 1284, Alfonso X of Castile, Cantigas de Santa Maria, Códice de los músicos, cantiga 3 (facsimile):

     Eſta é de como ſanta maria fez cobrar a Theophilo a carta que fezera cono demo u ſe tornou ſeu vaſſalo.

     This one is (about) how Holy Mary recovered for Theophilos the contract he had made with the Devil and became his vassal.

• Galician: vasalo
• Portuguese: vassalo

• vassallo (obsolete)

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese vassalo, from Medieval Latin vassallus (“manservant, domestic, retainer”), from vassus (“servant”), from Gaulish *wassos (“young man, squire”), from Proto-Celtic *wastos (“servant”) (compare Old Irish foss and Welsh gwas).

vassalo m (plural vassalos)

1. vassal (feudalism)

   Antonym: suserano

vassalo (feminine vassala, masculine plural vassalos, feminine plural vassalas, not comparable)

1. subordinate

   Synonyms: sujeito, subordinado