Inherited fromOld Catalanvaxell, fromLate Latinvāscellum, diminutive ofvās(“vessel”). CompareOccitanvaissèl,Frenchvaisseau. It was an old-fashioned word until about 1990, when it was used to replacebarco, which was felt to be too Castilian-sounding.

• IPA^(key): (Central)[bəˈʃeʎ]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic)[vəˈʃeʎ]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia)[vajˈʃeʎ]

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• Rhymes:-eʎ

vaixell m (pluralvaixells)

1. vessel,boat,ship

   Synonym:barco

   Hyponyms:nau,barca

• General colloquial usage is alsoCastilianismbarco.

• vaixella

• →? Galician:baixel
• →? Portuguese:baixel

• “vaixell”, inDiccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition,Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan:Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “vaixell”, inGran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana,Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana,2026
• “vaixell” inDiccionari normatiu valencià,Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “vaixell” inDiccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

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