vavassor
Latin
Alternative forms
Etymology
Perhaps from vassus vassōrum (“vassal of vassals”).
Noun
vavassor m (genitive vavassōris); third declension (Medieval Latin)
Declension
Third-declension noun.
Descendants
- → Italian: valvassore
- → Old French: 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
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