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Latin
Etymology
From Gaulish gabalos, from Proto-Celtic *gablā (“fork, forked branch”).
Pronunciation
Noun
gabalus m (genitive gabalī); second declension
- a gallows, gibbet
- a cross (instrument of torture)
- a fork (instrument of torture)
Declension
Second-declension noun.
Synonyms
Descendants
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 with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- gabalus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “gabalus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers