berfredus

== Latin == === Alternative forms === belfredus, berefredus berfredum n === Etymology === From Middle High German bervrit, bercfrit, or another Germanic cognate. Cognate with English belfry and French beffroi. === Pronunciation === (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈbɛr.fre.dus] === Noun === berfredus m (genitive berfredī); second declension (Medieval Latin) wall tower siege tower belfry (bell tower) ==== Declension ==== Second-declension noun. === References === "belfredus", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887) berfredum in Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften (1967– ), Mittellateinisches Wörterbuch, Munich: C.H. Beck Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976), “berfredus”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: E. J. Brill, page 97