Castellum

Reconstructed Limes watchtower, between Bad Nauheim and Pfaffenwiesbach, Germany.

A castellum^[1] in Latin is usually:

a small Roman fortlet or tower,^[2] a diminutive of castrum ("military camp"), often used as a watchtower or signal station like on Hadrian's Wall. It should be distinguished from a burgus, which was a later Latin term that was used particularly in the Germanic provinces.
a settling or storage tank in a Roman aqueduct or it:castellum aquae.

It is the source of the English word "castle".

Ruins of the castellum divisorium in Nîmes, France, which distributed water from an aqueduct to individual water pipes.

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