vallo

vallo

1. first-person singular present indicative of valer

• IPA^(key): /ˈval.lo/
• Rhymes: -allo
• Hyphenation: vàl‧lo

Borrowed from Latin vallum.

vallo m (plural valli)

1. (historical, Ancient Rome) the wooden fence built at the top of a rampart
2. (historical, Ancient Rome, loosely) rampart, bulwark
3. (literary) fortification

   Synonym: fortificazione

4. (poetic, figurative) bastion, defense

   Synonyms: baluardo, bastione, trincea

• vallare

Gender shift from valle, from Latin vallem.

vallo m (plural valli)

1. Alternative form of valle (“valley”)

Inherited from Latin vallus, diminutive of vannus (“winnowing basket”).

vallo m (plural valli)

1. (dialectal) sieve

   Synonyms: crivello, setaccio

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

vallo

1. compound of val, the second-person singular (tu) imperative form of andare, with lo

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

vallo

1. first-person singular present indicative of vallare

• vallo¹ in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
• vallo² in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
• vallo³ in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

From the noun vallum (“fence, rampart”)

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈu̯al.loː/, [ˈu̯älːʲoː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈval.lo/, [ˈvälːo]

vallō (present infinitive vallāre, perfect active vallāvī, supine vallātum); first conjugation

1. to surround, wall or fortify with a rampart or palisade

• The nature of the root vowel (i.e. whether it is văllō or vāllō) is not properly known. Most dictionaries that specify vowel length in closed syllables, especially those published in the 21st century, do not mark it as long.

• Italian: vallare
• Spanish: vallar
• Galician: valar

vallō

1. dative/ablative singular of vallum

• “vallo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “vallo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• vallo in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• vallo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • (ambiguous) to fortify the camp with a rampart: castra munire vallo (aggere)
    
  • (ambiguous) to keep watch on the rampart: custodias agere in vallo
    
  • (ambiguous) to surround a town with a rampart and fosse: oppidum cingere vallo et fossa
    

vallo

1. first-person singular present indicative of vallar