English

Noun

vallum ‎(plural vallums or valla)

1. (historical, Roman antiquity) A rampart; a wall, as in a fortification.

Latin

Etymology

From vallus ‎(“stake, palisade, point”), from Proto-Indo-European *wel- ‎(“to turn, wind, roll”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈwal.lum/, [ˈwal.lũ]

Noun

vallum n ‎(genitive vallī); second declension

1. wall, rampart, entrenchment

Inflection

Second declension.

Descendants

References

• vallum in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• vallum in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• VALLUM in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “vallum”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to raise a rampart, earthwork: vallum iacere, exstruere, facere
    
  • (ambiguous) to fortify the camp with a rampart: castra munire vallo (aggere)
    
  • (ambiguous) to keep watch on the rampart: custodias agere in vallo
    
  • (ambiguous) to surround a town with a rampart and fosse: oppidum cingere vallo et fossa
    
• vallum in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• vallum in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin