A Grammatical Dictionary of Botanical Latin

Vessel (Eng.noun), duct, “a duct or articulated tube rendered continuous by the more or less complete absorption of the intervening transverse walls” (Jackson): ductus,-us (s.m.IV), abl.sg. ductu, gen.pl. ductuum ‘a leading, conducting, as of water, a duct, canal: vas, gen.sg. vasis (s.n.III), nom. & acc. pl. vasa; also canalis,-is (s.m.III), abl.sg. canale; see also sulcus,-i (s.m.II), abl.sg. sulco, furrow or groove; see vas, vasis (s.n.III); see duct, tube; also used of boats; see boat, flask;

- canales resiniferi (adj.A): resin ducts.

- sulcus resorptus (part.A), resorption channel (in Sphagnum).

- scalariform duct, scalariform vessel: “a vessel having scalariform markings, as in many Ferns” (Jackson): vas scalariforme, acc. sg. vas scalariforme, abl. sg. vase scalariformi; ductus scalariformis, abl. sg. ductu scalariformi.

NOTE: a vessel in English: > Late Latin vascellum,-i (s.n.II), dim. of L. vas, ‘vessel,’ a receptacle, container: domestic containers or utensils, specifically ‘plate’; cutlery, dishes; “a hollow and usu. cylindrical or concave utensil ... for holding something, especially a liquid; ... a usually hollow structure used on the water for purposes of navigation, a watercraft; a tube or canal (as an artery, vein, or lymphatic) in which a body fluid (as blood or lymph) is contained and conveyed or circulated; a conducting tube in a vascular plant formed in the xylem by the fusion and loss of end walls of a series of cells” (WIII); see flask; see tracheid.

NOTE: often used of pots and jars: olla,-ae (s.f.I), abl.sg. olla, pot, jar, vessel; fictile,-is (s.n.III), frequently in pl., fictilia,-ium (pl.n.III), earthenware, pottery, crockery; “an earthen [i.e. clay] vessel;”

- in culinis divit[i]um et pauperum sunt vasa fictilia, there are earthenware vessels in the kitchens of rich and poor men.