bascauda

Latin

Etymology

    From Proto-Brythonic, from Proto-Celtic *baskis (“bundle, load”).[1] More at basket.

    Pronunciation

    Noun

    bascauda f (genitive bascaudae); first declension

    1. (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

    References

    1. ^ Ernout, Alfred; Meillet, Antoine (1985), “bascauda, -ae”, in Dictionnaire étymologique de la langue latine: histoire des mots‎[1] (in French), 4th edition, with additions and corrections of Jacques André, Paris: Klincksieck, published 2001, page 67

    Further reading

    • “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
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