castaldus

• gastaldus

From Gothic *𐌲𐌰𐍃𐍄𐌰𐌻𐌳𐍃 (*gastalds, “occupying”, “administering”, occurring in compound words), from 𐌲𐌰𐍃𐍄𐌰𐌻𐌳𐌰𐌽 (gastaldan, “to acquire, possess”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [kasˈtaɫ.dʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [kasˈt̪al̪.d̪us]

castaldus m (genitive castaldī); second declension

1. (Medieval Latin) alternative form of gastaldus

Second-declension noun.

• Italian: castaldo

• "castaldus", 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)
• Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976) “castaldio, castaldius, castaldus et derivata”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: E. J. Brill, page 152/2