intervallum
English
Etymology
Noun
intervallum (plural intervallums or intervalla)
- An interval.
- Shakespeare
- And a' shall laugh without intervallums.
- Chillingworth
- in one of these intervalla
- Shakespeare
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “intervallum”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
Latin
Etymology
From inter (“between”) + vallum (“a rampart”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /in.terˈu̯al.lum/, [ɪn̪t̪ɛrˈu̯älːʲʊ̃ˑ]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /in.terˈval.lum/, [in̪t̪erˈvälːum]
Noun
intervallum n (genitive intervallī); second declension
- The open space within the vallum of a camp or between palisades or ramparts.
- interval, distance
- c. 731 CE, Bede, Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum 1.1:
- Brittania Oceani insula, cui quondam Albion nomen fuit, inter septentrionem et occidentem locata est, Germaniae, Galliae, Hispaniae, maximis Europae partibus, multo intervallo adversa.
- Britain, an island in the ocean, formerly called Albion, is situated between the north and west, facing, though at a considerable distance, the coasts of Germany, France, and Spain, which form the greatest part of Europe.
- Brittania Oceani insula, cui quondam Albion nomen fuit, inter septentrionem et occidentem locata est, Germaniae, Galliae, Hispaniae, maximis Europae partibus, multo intervallo adversa.
- interval of time, pause, intermission
- difference
- (music) interval
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter).
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | intervallum | intervalla |
Genitive | intervallī | intervallōrum |
Dative | intervallō | intervallīs |
Accusative | intervallum | intervalla |
Ablative | intervallō | intervallīs |
Vocative | intervallum | intervalla |
Related terms
Descendants
- English: intervallic
- French: intervalle
- Italian: intervallo
References
- “intervallum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “intervallum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- intervallum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- to be equidistant: paribus intervallis distare
- at a great distance: longo spatio, intervallo interiecto
- to be separated by an immense interval of space and time: intervallo locorum et temporum disiunctum esse
- after a fairly long interval: satis longo intervallo
- to be equidistant: paribus intervallis distare
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