castellum

== English == === Etymology === Learned borrowing from Latin castellum. Doublet of cashel, castell, castle, and château. === Noun === castellum (plural castella or castellums) (historical) A small Roman detached fort or fortlet used as a watch tower or signal station. ==== Translations ==== == Dutch == === Etymology === Learned borrowing from Latin castellum. Doublet of Castilië, chateau, kasteel, Kessel, ketella, and telo. === Pronunciation === === Noun === castellum n (plural castella or castellums, diminutive castellumpje n) (historical) castellum == Latin == === Etymology === From castrum (“fort”) + -lum (diminutive suffix). === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [kasˈtɛl.lũː] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [kasˈtɛl.lum] === Noun === castellum n (genitive castellī); second declension castle, fort, citadel, fortress, stronghold a dwelling in a high place (figuratively) a shelter, stronghold, defence, refuge a structure in which the water of an aqueduct is collected, to be distributed by pipes or channels in different directions; a reservoir (Late Latin) a village ==== Declension ==== Second-declension noun (neuter). ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Descendants ==== === References === “castellum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “castellum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers "castellum", 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) “castellum”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette. “castellum”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers “castellum”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly