flasco

Latin

Alternative forms

flasca, frascia, flascus, flascōnus
flascula, flasculus

Etymology

Borrowed from Frankish *flaska (“bottle, flask”).

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

Catalan: flascó
Old French: flascon, flacon, flagon (“small bottle”)
- Middle French: flascon, flacon
  - French: flacon (see there for further descendants)
- Norman: fllac
- → English: flagon, flakon
  - English: flagon
- ⇒ Old French: flagonet
  - Middle French: flaconnet
Iberian:
- Asturian: frascu
- Old Portuguese: frasco
  - Galician: frasco
  - Portuguese: frasco
- Spanish: frasco
Italian: fiasco (see there for further descendants)
Old Occitan: flasca
- Catalan: flasca
- Occitan: flasca
→ Hungarian: flaska

References

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

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