antemurale
Italian
Etymology
From Latin antemūrāle (“barbican”).
Noun
antemurale m (plural antemurali)
- barbican (or similar fortification)
Anagrams
Latin
Etymology
ante- (“before”) + mūrālis (“of or pertaining to a wall”)
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [an.tɛ.muːˈraː.ɫɛ]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [an̪.t̪e.muˈraː.le]
Noun
antemūrāle n (genitive antemūrālis); third declension
- protecting wall, an outwork, breastwork, barbican
Declension
Third-declension noun (neuter, pure i-stem).
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | antemūrāle | antemūrālia |
| genitive | antemūrālis | antemūrālium |
| dative | antemūrālī | antemūrālibus |
| accusative | antemūrāle | antemūrālia |
| ablative | antemūrālī | antemūrālibus |
| vocative | antemūrāle | antemūrālia |
Derived terms
Descendants
- Italian: antemurale
- Spanish: antemural
References
- “antemurale”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- "antemurale", 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)
- antemurale in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- antemurale in Ramminger, Johann (16 July 2016 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700[1], pre-publication website, 2005-2016