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Latin
Etymology
Derived from vallum (“wall”). Older theories derive the word from Proto-Indo-European *wl̥H-o- (“stick, stake”), from Proto-Indo-European *welH- (“to turn, wind, roll”), and compare it with Gothic 𐍅𐌰𐌻𐌿𐍃 (walus, “staff, stick”).
Noun
vallus m (genitive vallī); second declension
- palisade
- stake, pole
Usage notes
- The nature of the root vowel (văllus or vāllus) is not properly known. Most dictionaries that specify vowel length in closed syllables, especially those published in the 21st century, do not mark it as long.
Declension
Second-declension noun.
References
- “vallus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “vallus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- vallus 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)
- “vallus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 652