different between flask vs lagena

English

Etymology

From Middle English flask, flaske (“case, cask, keg”), from Old English flasce, flaxe (“bottle, flask”) and Medieval Latin flasc? (“bottle”); from Frankish *flasko, *flaska; whence also Dutch fles; both from Proto-Germanic *flask? (“braid-covered bottle, wicker-enclosed jug”) (whence also German Low German Flaske, Fless, German Flasche), from Proto-Indo-European *plo?-sk? (“flat”) (whence also Lithuanian plókš?ias, Czech ploský, Albanian flashkët).

Sense 2 from Italian fiasco and sense 3 from Middle French flasque (“powder flask”), itself from Old Spanish flasco, frasco, both from Late Latin above.

Pronunciation

• enPR: fläsk, IPA^(key): /fl??sk/
• enPR: fl?sk, IPA^(key): /flæsk/
• Rhymes: -æsk

Noun

flask (plural flasks)

1. A narrow-necked vessel of metal or glass, used for various purposes; as of sheet metal, to carry gunpowder in; or of wrought iron, to contain quicksilver; or of glass, to heat water in, etc.
2. A container used to discreetly carry a small amount of a hard alcoholic beverage; a pocket flask.
3. (sciences) Laboratory glassware used to hold larger volumes than test tubes, normally having a narrow mouth of a standard size which widens to a flat or spherical base.
4. (engineering) A container for holding a casting mold, especially for sand casting molds.
5. A bed in a gun carriage.

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Translations

Verb

flask (third-person singular simple present flasks, present participle flasking, simple past and past participle flasked)

1. (dentistry) To invest a denture in a flask so as to produce a sectional mold.

Anagrams

• falks, flaks

Danish

Verb

flask

1. imperative of flaske

Dutch

Etymology

From French flasque (“flask”). Doublette with (native) fles (“bottle”), (through French) flacon (“flagon”) and (through Italian) fiasco (“fiasco”).

Noun

flask f (plural flasken, diminutive flaskje n)

1. flask

Middle English

Alternative forms

• flaske

Etymology

From Anglo-Norman flascon, from Frankish *flaska, from Proto-Germanic *flask?. Also reinforced by existing Old English flasce, also from Proto-Germanic *flask?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?flask(?)/

Noun

flask (plural flaskes)

1. (rare) A small barrel for beer storage.
2. (rare) A container for the storage of garments.

Descendants

• English: flask
• Scots: flask, flas

References

• “flask, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-05-04.

Old Frisian

Alternative forms

• fl?sk

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *flaiski. Cognates include Old English fl?s? and Old Saxon fl?sk.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?fla?sk/

Noun

fl?sk n

1. flesh

Descendants

• North Frisian:

  Mooring: flååsch

• Saterland Frisian: Flaask

References

• Bremmer, Rolf H. (2009) An Introduction to Old Frisian: History, Grammar, Reader, Glossary, Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, ?ISBN, page 28

English

Etymology

From Latin

Noun

lagena (plural lagenas or lagenae or lagenæ)

1. (anatomy) The upper part of the cochlear duct.
2. (anatomy) A similar structure, shaped like a flask, that is a hearing organ in some vertebrates.
3. (historical) A wine-vase; an amphora.

Derived terms

• lagenar

Anagrams

• Angela, Galena, alnage, anlage, galena

Latin

Alternative forms

• lag?na, lagaena, lagoena, laguna

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ??????? (lág?nos, “flask, pitcher”).

Noun

lag?na f (genitive lag?nae); first declension

1. large earthenware vessel
2. flask, flagon

Declension

First-declension noun.

Derived terms

• lagula
• lagella
• laguncula

Descendants

• Arabic: ????????? (laj?na) (super-rare)
• English: lagena
• Portuguese: laje, lájea, lajem, laja, lagena
• Swedish: lägel

References

• Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne (1881) , “lagena”, in Supplément aux dictionnaires arabes (in French), volume 2, Leiden: E.?J. Brill, page 518
• lagena in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• lagena in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• lagena in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette