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flasco

flasco

Latin

Alternative forms

flasca, frascia, flascus, flascōnus
flascula, flasculus

Noun

flascō ? ‎(genitive flascōnis); third declension

(Late Latin) bottle
(Late Latin) a glass or earthenware vessel for conserving wine
(Late Latin) portable barrel

Declension

Third declension.

Case	Singular	Plural
nominative	flascō	flascōnēs
genitive	flascōnis	flascōnum
dative	flascōnī	flascōnibus
accusative	flascōnem	flascōnēs
ablative	flascōne	flascōnibus
vocative	flascō	flascōnēs

Descendants

→ Hungarian: flaska
Old French: flascon, flacon
- Middle French: flacon
  - French: flacon
- → Middle English: flakon, flagon
  - English: flagon
- → Danish: flakon
Italian: fiasco
- → French: fiasco
  - → English: fiasco
Portuguese: frasco

References

FLASCA in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
“flasco” in Jan Frederik Niermeyer’s Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus (1976)