castellum

Contents
English
Etymology
Noun
Latin
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
Inflection
Derived terms
Descendants
References

English

Etymology
Borrowed from Latin castellum. See castle.

Noun
castellum (plural castella or castellums)

1. (historical) A small Roman detached fort orfortlet used as a watch tower or signal station.

Latin

Etymology
Diminutive of castrum (“fort”).

Pronunciation
(Classical) IPA(key): /kasˈtel.lum/ , [kasˈtɛl.lũ]
castellum

Noun
castellum n (genitive castellī); second declension

1. castle, fort, citadel, fortress, stronghold

2. (figuratively) a shelter, stronghold, defence, refuge
3. a structure in which the water of an aqueduct is collected, to be distributed by pipes or channels in ferent
dif
directions; a reservoir
Inflection
Second declension.

Case Singular Plural

nominative castellum castella
genitive castellī castellōrum
dative castellō castellīs
accusative castellum castella
ablative castellō castellīs
vocative castellum castella

Derived terms

castilium

Descendants
Maltese: kastell Old Leonese:
Albanian: kështjellë
Navarro-Aragonese:
Basque: gaztelu Asturian: castiellu, castiyu
Common Brittonic: Aragonese: castiello Extremaduran: castillu
Neapolitan: castiello Leonese: castiellu
Breton: kastell, kestell
Old English: castel, castell, Mirandese: castielho
Cornish: kastel
cæstel, ċeastel (borrowed) Old Portuguese: castelo
Welsh: castell
Corsican: castellu English: castle Galician: castelo
Dalmatian: castial Scots: castel, castell Portuguese: castelo
Danish: kastel Old French: chastel, castel
Kabuverdianu: kastélu
Dutch: kasteel French: château Old Occitan:
Afrikaans: kasteel Norman: châté
Old Irish: caisel Catalan: castell
Papiamentu: kastel
Occitan: castèl
Esperanto: kastelo Irish: caisleán, caiseal
Old Spanish: castiello
Ido: kastelo Scottish Gaelic: caisteal
Walloon: tchestea Spanish: castillo
Franco-Provençal: châtél
Friulian: cjiscjel Old High German: kastel Papiamentu: kastio
Icelandic: kastali Tagalog: kastilyo
Czech: kostel
Interlingua: castello Ladino: kastilyo
Polish: kościół
Italian: castello Romanian: castel
Russian: костёл Romansch: chastè
Hungarian: kastély
(kostjól) Sardinian: casteddu
Romanian: coștei Slovak: kostol Sicilian: casteddu
Malay: kastil German: Kastell Swedish: kastell
Venetian: casteło
Indonesian: kastil
West Frisian: kastiel

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’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis(augmented edition, 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

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