intervallum

From Latin intervallum.

• IPA^(key): /ˌɪntə(ɹ)ˈvæləm/

intervallum (plural intervallums or intervalla)

1. (obsolete) An interval.
   • c. 1596–1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Fourth, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene i]:

     And a' shall laugh without intervallums.

   • 1637, William Chillingworth, The Religion of Protestants a Safe Way to Salvation:

     in one of these intervalla

2. (architecture) The gap between an outer rampart and the fortress it surrounds.

• “intervallum”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

From Latin intervallum.^[1]

• IPA^(key): [ˈintɛrvɒlːum]
• Hyphenation: in‧ter‧val‧lum
• Rhymes: -um

intervallum (plural intervallumok)

1. interval of time

   Synonym: időköz

2. (mathemtics) interval (a set of real numbers that contains all real numbers lying between any two numbers of the set)
3. (music) interval

   Synonym: hangköz

• intervallum in Géza Bárczi, László Országh, et al., editors, A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára [The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (ÉrtSz.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN.

From inter (“between”) +‎ vallum (“a rampart”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ɪn.tɛrˈwal.lũː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [in̪.t̪erˈval.lum]

intervallum n (genitive intervallī); second declension

1. The open space within the vallum of a camp or between palisades or ramparts.
2. interval, distance
   • c. 731 CE, Beda Presbyter, Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum 1.1:

     Brittania Oceani insula, cui quondam Albion nomen fuit, inter septentrionem et occidentem locata est, Germaniae, Galliae, Hispaniae, maximis Europae partibus, multo intervallo adversa.

     Britain, an island in the ocean, formerly called Albion, is situated between the north and west, facing, though at a considerable distance, the coasts of Germany, France, and Spain, which form the greatest part of Europe.

3. interval of time, pause, intermission

   Synonym: spatium

4. difference
5. (music) interval

Second-declension noun (neuter).

• intervectus
• intervellō

• “intervallum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “intervallum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• intervallum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to be equidistant: paribus intervallis distare
    
  • at a great distance: longo spatio, intervallo interiecto
    
  • to be separated by an immense interval of space and time: intervallo locorum et temporum disiunctum esse
    
  • after a fairly long interval: satis longo intervallo