vavassor

== English == === Noun === vavassor (plural vavassors) 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) subvassal (Lombardy) vassal of the king ==== Declension ==== Third-declension noun. ==== 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, 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