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vassal
English
Alternative forms
- vasal (rare)
Etymology
From Middle English vassal, from Old French vassal, from Medieval Latin vassallus (“manservant, domestic, retainer”), from Latin vassus (“servant”), from Gaulish *wassos (“young man, squire”), from Proto-Celtic *wastos (“servant”) (compare Old Irish foss and Welsh gwas).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?væs?l/
- Rhymes: -æs?l
Noun
vassal (plural vassals)
- (historical) The grantee of a fief, feud, or fee; one who keeps land of a superior, and who vows fidelity and homage to him, normally a lord of a manor; a feudatory; a feudal tenant.
- A subordinate
- Synonyms: subject, dependant, servant, slave
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations
Adjective
vassal (not comparable)
- Resembling a vassal; slavish; servile.
- 1594, William Shakespeare, Love's Labour's Lost, Act IV, scene iii
- Did they, quoth you? / Who sees the heavenly Rosaline / That, like a rude and savage man of Inde / At the first opening of the gorgeous east / Bows not his vassal head and strucken blind / Kisses the base ground with obedient breast?
- 1594, William Shakespeare, Love's Labour's Lost, Act IV, scene iii
Translations
Verb
vassal (third-person singular simple present vassals, present participle vassalling, simple past and past participle vassalled)
- (transitive) To treat as a vassal or to reduce to the position of a vassal; to subject to control; to enslave.
- (transitive) To subordinate to someone or something.
Translations
Anagrams
- Salvas, slavas, vasals
French
Etymology
From Old French vassal, from Medieval Latin vassallus (“manservant, domestic, retainer”), from Latin vassus (“servant”), from Gaulish *wassos (“young man, squire”), from Proto-Celtic *wastos (“servant”) (compare Old Irish foss and Welsh gwas).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /va.sal/
Adjective
vassal (feminine singular vassale, masculine plural vassaux, feminine plural vassales)
- vassal
Noun
vassal m (plural vassaux, feminine vassale)
- a vassal
Descendants
- ? Danish: vasal
- ? Russian: ??????? (vassál) (see there for further descendants)
Further reading
- “vassal” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Anagrams
- valsas
Hungarian
Etymology
vas +? -val
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [?v????l]
- Hyphenation: vas?sal
Noun
vassal
- instrumental singular of vas
Derived terms
- t?zzel-vassal
Old French
Noun
vassal m (oblique plural vassaus or vassax or vassals, nominative singular vassaus or vassax or vassals, nominative plural vassal)
- vassal
Descendants
- English: vassal (rare)
- French: vassal
- Norman: vassa (Jersey)
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varsal
English
Etymology
Short for universal.
Adjective
varsal (not comparable)
- (obsolete, colloquial, usually with world) Whole, entire.
References
- “Varsal” listed on page 56 of volume X, part II (V–Z) of A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles [1st ed., 1928]
Anagrams
- Ravals, alvars, arvals, larvas, lavras, salvar
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