vassallus

• vasallus, wasallus, vassalus, vassallis, bassallus, fasellus, fassellus

Extended form of vassus, from Gaulish *wassos (“young man, squire”), from Proto-Celtic *uɸostos (“servant”) (compare Old Irish foss and Welsh gwas). The form vassus is first attested in the Salic Law of the 6th century, meaning “servant, serf”; “feudal vassal” is attested by the 9th century.

• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [vasˈsal.lus]

vassallus m (genitive vassallī); second declension (Medieval Latin)

1. servant, serf
2. vassal

Second-declension noun.

• vassallāticum

• "vassallus", 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)
• R. E. Latham, D. R. Howlett, & R. K. Ashdowne, editors (1975–2013), “vassallus”, in Dictionary of Medieval Latin from British Sources‎^[1], London: Oxford University Press for the British Academy, →ISBN, →OCLC
• Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976), “vassallus”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: E. J. Brill, pages 1061–63