vas
English
noun
Definitions
- (anatomy) A vessel or duct transporting any bodily fluid, such as blood, lymph, chyle, or semen.
- (colloquial) The vas deferens.
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin vas (surety, bail, bond, vessel).
Origin
Latin
vas
Gloss
surety, bail, bond, vessel
Kanji
器
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- intravasate English
- postvasectomy English
- prevasectomy English
- transvasation English
- vas deferens English
- vasectomee English
- vasectomize English
- vasectomy English
- vasiform English
- vasitis English
- praes Latin
- vadimonium Latin
- vador Latin
- vas Latin
- vase French
- vasija Spanish, Castilian
- vase Norwegian Bokmål
- vase Norwegian Nynorsk
- vase Middle French
- *wass- Proto-Italic
- vaza Uzbek