castellum
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin castellum. See castle.
Noun
castellum (plural castella or castellums)
- (historical) A small Roman detached fort or fortlet used as a watch tower or signal station.
Latin
Etymology
Diminutive of castrum (“fort”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /kasˈtel.lum/, [käs̠ˈt̪ɛlːʲʊ̃ˑ]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /kasˈtel.lum/, [käsˈt̪ɛlːum]
Noun
castellum n (genitive castellī); second declension
- castle, fort, citadel, fortress, stronghold
- (figuratively) a shelter, stronghold, defence, refuge
- a structure in which the water of an aqueduct is collected, to be distributed by pipes or channels in different directions; a reservoir
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter).
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | castellum | castella |
Genitive | castellī | castellōrum |
Dative | castellō | castellīs |
Accusative | castellum | castella |
Ablative | castellō | castellīs |
Vocative | castellum | castella |
Derived terms
Descendants
- Corsican: castellu
- Dalmatian: castial
- Franco-Provençal: châtél
- Friulian: cjiscjel
- Italian: castello
- Navarro-Aragonese:
- Aragonese: castiello
- Neapolitan: castiello
- Old French: chastel, castel
- Old Leonese:
- Old Galician-Portuguese: castelo
- Old Occitan:
- Old Spanish: castiello
- Romanian: castel
- Romansch: chastè
- Sardinian: casteddu
- Sicilian: casteddu
- Venetian: casteło
- → Albanian: kështjellë
- → Aramaic: קַסְטֵל (qasṭēl)
- → Arabic: قَسْطَل (qasṭal)
- → Basque: gaztelu
- → Common Brittonic:
- → Danish: kastel
- → Dutch: kasteel
- → Esperanto: kastelo
- Ido: kastelo
- → Icelandic: kastali
- → Interlingua: castello
- → Malay: kastil
- Indonesian: kastil
- → Maltese: kastell
- → Old English: castel, castell, cæstel, ċeastel
- → Old High German: kastel
- → Swedish: kastell
- → West Frisian: kastiel
References
- “castellum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “castellum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- castellum 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)
- castellum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “castellum”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “castellum”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
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