vavassor

English

Noun

vavassor (plural vavassors)

1. Alternative form of vavasour

Anagrams

• vavasors

Latin

Alternative forms

• valvassor

Etymology

Perhaps from vassus vassōrum (“vassal of vassals”).

Noun

vavassor m (genitive vavassōris); third declension (Medieval Latin)

1. subvassal
2. (Lombardy) vassal of the king

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	vavassor	vavassōrēs
genitive	vavassōris	vavassōrum
dative	vavassōrī	vavassōribus
accusative	vavassōrem	vavassōrēs
ablative	vavassōre	vavassōribus
vocative	vavassor	vavassōrēs

Descendants

• → Italian: valvassore
• → Old Occitan: vavassor, valvassor, vasvassor
  • Occitan: vavassor (Mistralian spelling: vavassour)
  • Catalan: varvassor
• → Old French: vavasour
  • French: vavasseur
  • → English: vavasour

References

• vavassor in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976) “vavassor”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: E. J. Brill