vaso

vaso

1. inflection of vasoa:
   1. present active indicative connegative
   2. second-person singular present imperative
   3. second-person singular present active imperative connegative

• Savo, savo

From Old Galician-Portuguese vaso, from Latin vāsum.

• IPA^(key): [ˈba.sʊ]

vaso m (plural vasos)

1. drinking glass
2. glassful
3. drinking vessel
   • 1325, E. Portela Silva, editor, La región del obispado de Tuy en los siglos XII a XV. Una sociedad en expansión y en la crisis, Santiago: El Eco Franciscano, page 396:

     Et mando y conmigo a esse moesteyro a minna cama que eu ouver a ora da minna morte e huun vaso de prata de huun marco ou huna taça

     And I bequeath to this monastery my bed, the one I happen to have at the time of my death, and a silver goblet, weighting a mark, and a cup

4. vase; urn
5. (of a horse) hoof

• Seoane, Ernesto Xosé González; Granja, María Álvarez de la; Agrelo, Ana Isabel Boullón (2006–2022), “vaso”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval [Dictionary of dictionaries of Medieval Galician] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Barreiro, Xavier Varela; Guinovart, Xavier Gómez (2006–2018), “vaso”, in Corpus Xelmírez: corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval [Corpus Xelmírez: linguistic corpus of Medieval Galicia] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “vaso”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “vaso”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “vaso”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

From Latin vāsum.

• IPA^(key): /ˈva.zo/
• Rhymes: -azo
• Hyphenation: và‧so

• Audio:

  (file)

vaso m (plural vasi, diminutive vasétto or vasettìno or (familiar, used in reference to babies) vasìno, augmentative vasóne, derogatory vasùccio)

1. jar, pot
2. vase

• vassoio

• → Greek: βάζο (vázo)
• → Ottoman Turkish: وازو (vazo)
  • Turkish: vazo
  • → Armenian: վազօ (vazō)
• → Polish: wazon

• vaso in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

vāsō

1. dative/ablative singular of vāsum

• "vaso", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)

Inherited from Latin bāsium. Compare Italian bacio.

• (Naples) IPA^(key): [ˈvaː.sə]

vaso m (plural vase)

1. kiss

• AIS: Sprach- und Sachatlas Italiens und der Südschweiz [Linguistic and Ethnographic Atlas of Italy and Southern Switzerland] – map 68: “il bacio” – on navigais-web.pd.istc.cnr.it

• vazo (obsolete)

From Old Galician-Portuguese vaso, from Latin vāsum (“vessel; vase”).

• Rhymes: -azu
• Homophones: vazo, (Northern Portugal) bazo
• Hyphenation: va‧so

vaso m (plural vasos)

1. vessel (container of liquid)

   Synonyms: jarra, jarro

2. vase (container for flowers)
3. (biology) vessel (tube or canal that carries fluid)

   Synonyms: canal, tubo

4. (Brazil) toilet (device for depositing human waste and then flushing it)

   Synonyms: (Brazil) vaso sanitário, (Brazil) bacia, (Brazil) privada, (Portugal) sanita, (Portugal) retrete, (humorous) trono

• (container of liquid): ânfora, cântaro
• (tube or canal that carries fluid): artéria, capilar, traqueia, veia

• → Malay: pasu (“vase; pot”)
  • Indonesian: pasu
  • → Tagalog: paso

• “vaso”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “vaso”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

Inherited from Old Spanish vaso, from Latin vāsum, from vās.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbaso/ [ˈba.so]

• Audio (Colombia):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -aso
• Syllabification: va‧so
• Homophones: baso, (Latin America) bazo

vaso m (plural vasos)

1. drinking glass

   Synonyms: copa, póculo

2. glassful
3. vessel (container)
4. vessel (tube or canal that carries fluid in an animal or plant)

• Vaso is a false friend and does not mean vase. The Spanish word for vase is jarrón. However, vaso's Latin ancestor, vāsum, meant "vase."

(diminutive vasito)

• → Basque: baso
• → Hiligaynon: baso
• → Kapampangan: basu
• → Karao: baso
• → Maguindanao: basu
• → Tagalog: baso
• → Tausug: basu

• “vaso”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025
• “vaso”, in Diccionario de americanismos [Dictionary of Americanisms] (in Spanish), Association of Academies of the Spanish Language [Spanish: Asociación de Academias de la Lengua Española], 2010