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Italian
Etymology
From Latin antemūrāle (“barbican”).
Noun
antemurale m (plural antemurali)
- barbican (or similar fortification)
Anagrams
Latin
Etymology
ante- (“before”) + mūrālis (“of or pertaining to a wall”)
Pronunciation
Noun
antemūrāle n (genitive antemūrālis); third declension
- protecting wall, an outwork, breastwork, barbican
Declension
Third-declension noun (neuter, “pure” i-stem).
Derived terms
Descendants
References
- “antemurale”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- antemurale 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)
- antemurale in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- antemurale in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700, pre-publication website, 2005-2016