battalia

== English == === Etymology === Borrowed from Late Latin battālia, variant of battuālia (“military exercises”), from Latin battuō (“to strike, beat”), from Gaulish. Doublet of battle. === Noun === battalia (countable and uncountable, plural battalias) (obsolete, uncountable) Order of battle; disposition or arrangement of troops or of a naval force, ready for action. (obsolete, countable) An army in battle array; also, the main battalia or body of the army, as distinct from the vanguard and rear. === See also === battalia pie == Latin == === Noun === battālia f or n pl (Late Latin) alternative form of battuālia ==== Declension ==== Only attested in the nominative, either as a feminine singular or neuter plural, depending on the reading. See the quotation above. ==== Descendants ==== See battuālia. === References === “battuālia” in volume 2, column 1788, line 75 in the Thesaurus Linguae Latinae (TLL Open Access), Berlin (formerly Leipzig): De Gruyter (formerly Teubner), 1900–present