English
transvasation
Transvasation comes from Latin vas ‘vessel’.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEvas‘vessel’
- Englishearliest quotation 1601transvasation
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Earlier history uncertain.
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEvas‘vessel’
- Englishearliest quotation 1601transvasation
Earliest quotation: 1601, Caius Plinius Secundus [i.e., [Book XXXIV.]: “This transvasation ought so long to be continued out…”
Linked words
through Latin vas ‘vessel’
Today it means
noun The act or process of pouring out of one vessel into another.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin vas / transvasation