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English
Noun
peribolus (plural periboli)
- Alternative form of peribolos
Latin
Noun
peribolus m (genitive peribolī); second declension
- circuit
- enclosure
- precinct
- outer wall
Declension
Second-declension noun.
References
- “peribolus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- peribolus 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)
- peribolus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “peribolus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers