Latin

Noun

gabalus m ‎(genitive gabalī); second declension

1. a gallows, gibbet
2. a cross (instrument of torture)
3. a fork (instrument ot torture)

Inflection

Second declension.

Synonyms

• (gallows): arbor
• (cross): crux
• (fork): furca

Descendants

• Old French: javelline

References

• gabalus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• GABALUS in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “gabalus”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• gabalus in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers