castellum
English
Noun
castellum (plural castella or castellums)
- (historical) A small Roman detached fort or fortlet used as a watch tower or signal station.
Latin

castellum
Etymology
Diminutive of castrum (“fort”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /kasˈtel.lum/, [kasˈtɛl.lũ]
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
Inflection
Second declension.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | castellum | castella |
Genitive | castellī | castellōrum |
Dative | castellō | castellīs |
Accusative | castellum | castella |
Ablative | castellō | castellīs |
Vocative | castellum | castella |
Derived terms
Descendants
- Albanian: kështjellë
- Aramaic: קַסְטֵל (qasṭēl)
- Arabic: قَسْطَل (qasṭal)
- Basque: gaztelu
- Common Brittonic:
- Corsican: castellu
- Dalmatian: castial
- Danish: kastel
- Dutch: kasteel
- Esperanto: kastelo
- Ido: kastelo
- Franco-Provençal: châtél
- Friulian: cjiscjel
- Icelandic: kastali
- Interlingua: castello
- Italian: castello
- Hungarian: kastély
- Romanian: coștei
- Hungarian: kastély
- Malay: kastil
- Indonesian: kastil
- Maltese: kastell
- Navarro-Aragonese:
- Aragonese: castiello
- Neapolitan: castiello
- Old English: castel, castell, cæstel, ċeastel (borrowed)
- Old French: chastel, castel
- Old High German: kastel
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, 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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