castellum

Borrowed from Latin castellum. See castle.

castellum (plural castella or castellums)

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

Diminutive of castrum (“fort”).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /kasˈtel.lum/, [kasˈtɛl.lũ]

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 different directions; a reservoir

Second declension.

• castilium

• 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