gabalus

== Latin == === Etymology === From Gaulish gabalos, from Proto-Celtic *gablā (“fork, forked branch”). === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈɡa.ba.ɫʊs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈɡaː.ba.lus] === Noun === gabalus m (genitive gabalī); second declension a gallows, gibbet a cross (instrument of torture) a fork (instrument of torture) ==== Declension ==== Second-declension noun. ==== Synonyms ==== (gallows): arbor (cross): crux (fork): furca ==== Descendants ==== Old French: *javel, javelot, javelline Middle English: English: javelin === References === “gabalus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press "gabalus", 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) “gabalus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette. “gabalus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers