vessel
English
/ˈvɛs.əl/
noun
Definitions
- (nautical) Any craft designed for transportation on water, such as a ship or boat.
- A craft designed for transportation through air or space.
- (uncountable) Dishes and cutlery collectively, especially if made of precious metals.
- A container of liquid or other substance, such as a glass, goblet, cup, bottle, bowl, or pitcher.
- A person as a container of qualities or feelings.
- (biology) A tube or canal that carries fluid in an animal or plant.
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English vessel derived from Old French vaissel derived from Latin vāscellum.
Origin
Latin
vāscellum
Gloss
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- exvessel English
- intervessel English
- light English
- lightvessel English
- macrovessel English
- microvessel English
- multivessel English
- nanovessel English
- neovessel English
- perivessel English
- unvessel English
- vesselful English
- vesselness English
- vascellum Latin
- vāscella Latin
- vāscellum Latin
- vāsculum Latin
- bajel Spanish, Castilian
- vajilla Spanish, Castilian
- vessel Middle English
- vesselling Middle English
- vesselment Middle English
- vaissel Old French
- vaixell Catalan, Valencian
- baixel Galician
- vaissé Norman
- vaisselh Old Occitan