vallis

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Latin

Etymology 1

Uncertain, but possibly from Proto-Indo-European *welH- (“to turn, wind, roll”), same source as Latin vāllum (“rampart”), North Frisian wal (“wall”), Dutch wal (“wall, rampart, embankment”), German Wall (“rampart, mound, embankment”), Swedish vall (“mound, wall, bank”).

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Pronunciation

Noun

vallis f (genitive vallis); third declension

  1. (literal) a valley, vale
  2. (transferred sense, poetic) a hollow
    Cur valle permutem Sabina divitias operosiores? (Hor, Odes 3, I)
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Inflection

Third-declension noun (i-stem).

Case Singular Plural
Nominative vallis vallēs
Genitive vallis vallium
Dative vallī vallibus
Accusative vallem vallēs
vallīs
Ablative valle vallibus
Vocative vallis vallēs
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Descendants

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Pronunciation

Noun

vāllīs n

  1. dative/ablative plural of vāllum

References

  • “vallis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • vallis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  1. ^ Franco, Comparative etymological Dictionary of classical Indo-European languages: Indo-European - Sanskrit - Greek - Latin
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