corona vallare

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Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin vallāris corōna (literally “rampart crown”).

Noun

corona vallare f (plural corone vallari)

  1. (historical, Ancient Rome, military) a symbolic honour/honor given to the first soldier who mounted the enemy's rampart
    • 1601, Scipione Mazzella, “Trattato dell'origine e del divisamento delle corone de' signori titolati del regno [Treatise on the origin and division of crowns of the kingdom's titled lords]”, in Descrizione del Regno di Napoli [Description of the Kingdom of Naples], Naples: Gio Battista Cappello, Corona di mirto [Myrtle crown], page 497:
      A chi entraua per primo nel campo de nemici, era donata la corona Vallare, […] la quale era d’oro in forma di belloardo.
      [A chi entrava per primo nel campo de' nemici era donata la corona vallare, […] la quale era d'oro, in forma di belloardo.]
      Whoever entered the enemy encampment first was gifted the rampart crown, which was made out of gold, in the shape of a rampart.
    • 1672, Lodovico Moscardo, “Di Gerione re di Siracusa e di varie corone [Of Hiero, king of Syracuse, and of various crowns]”, Parte seconda [Second part], in Note, overo memorie, del museo‎, Cor vallare (section 8), page 430:
      La corona Vallare era fatta parimente d’oro in guiſa di quelle trinciere che chiudeuano, ò cingeuano il campo de nemici
      [La corona vallare era fatta parimente d'oro, in guisa di quelle trincere che chiudevano, o cingevano, il campo de' nemici]
      The rampart crown , too, was made out of gold, resembling those trenches which enclosed, or encircled, the enemy encampment
    • 1795 [1760], “Corone [Crowns]”, in Dizionario compendioso d'antichità [Abridged dictionary of antiquities]‎, 3rd edition, Venice: Sebastiano Coleti, translation of Dictionnaire abrégé d'antiquités by E. J. Monchablon (in French), page 178:
      La corona vallare, corona caſtrenſis, ſeu vallaris, che ſi dava al ſoldato Romano, il quale aveva penetrato il primo nel campo de’ nemici
      [La corona vallare — corona castrensis, seu vallaris — che si dava al soldato Romano il quale aveva penetrato il primo nel campo de' nemici]
      The rampart crown — corōna castrēnsis, seu vallāris — which was given to the Roman soldier whom had first entered the enemy encampment

Further reading

  • vallare1 in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
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