antemurale

Italian

Etymology

From Latin antemūrāle (“barbican”).

Noun

antemurale m (plural antemurali)

1. barbican (or similar fortification)

Anagrams

• amarulente, aumentarle

Latin

Etymology

ante- (“before”) +‎ mūrālis (“of or pertaining to a wall”)

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /an.te.muːˈraː.le/, [än̪t̪ɛmuːˈräːɫ̪ɛ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /an.te.muˈra.le/, [än̪t̪emuˈräːle]

Noun

antemūrāle n (genitive antemūrālis); third declension

1. protecting wall, an outwork, breastwork, barbican

Declension

Third-declension noun (neuter, “pure” i-stem).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	antemūrāle	antemūrālia
Genitive	antemūrālis	antemūrālium
Dative	antemūrālī	antemūrālibus
Accusative	antemūrāle	antemūrālia
Ablative	antemūrālī	antemūrālibus
Vocative	antemūrāle	antemūrālia

Derived terms

• antemūrāle Christiānitātis

Descendants

• Italian: antemurale
• Spanish: antemural

References

• “antemurale”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• antemurale in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• antemurale in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• antemurale in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎^[1], pre-publication website, 2005-2016