vallum

English

noun

Definitions

(historical) A rampart; a wall, as in a fortification.
(anatomy) The eyebrow.

Etymology

Derived from Latin vallum (wall, rampart, palisade, entrenchment).

Origin

Latin

vallum

Gloss

wall, rampart, palisade, entrenchment

Concept

Semantic Field

The house

Ontological Category

Person/Thing

`Kanji`

壁

Emoji

📌 📍 🧱

Timeline

Distribution of cognates by language

Geogrpahic distribution of cognates

Cognates and derived terms

vallum Latin
Wall German
vallo Italian
wal Dutch, Flemish
*wel- Proto-Indo-European
valo Portuguese
*wallaz Proto-Germanic
*wallaz, *wallą Proto-Germanic
weall Old English
valo Galician
wal Middle High German
avulli Albanian
valder Old Swedish