vallis

Latin

Etymology 1

    Uncertain, but possibly from Proto-Indo-European *welH- (“to turn, wind, roll”), same source as Latin vāllum (“rampart”), North Frisian wal (“wall”), Dutch wal (“wall, rampart, embankment”), German Wall (“rampart, mound, embankment”), Swedish vall (“mound, wall, bank”).[1]

    Alternative forms

    Pronunciation

    Noun

    vallis f (genitive vallis); third declension

    1. (literal) a valley, vale
    2. (transferred sense, poetic) a hollow
      Cur valle permutem Sabina divitias operosiores? (Hor, Odes 3, I)
      'Why should I change my Sabine valley, for the heavier burden of excess wealth? ' A. S. Kline
    Inflection

    Third-declension noun (i-stem).

    singular plural
    nominative vallis vallēs
    genitive vallis vallium
    dative vallī vallibus
    accusative vallem vallēs
    vallīs
    ablative valle vallibus
    vocative vallis vallēs
    Derived terms
    Descendants

    Etymology 2

    See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

    Pronunciation

    Noun

    vallīs n

    1. dative/ablative plural of vallum (“wall”)

    Etymology 3

    See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

    Pronunciation

    Noun

    vallīs m

    1. dative/ablative plural of vallus (“stake”)

    References

    • “vallis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
    • vallis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
    1. ^ Franco, Comparative etymological Dictionary of classical Indo-European languages: Indo-European - Sanskrit - Greek - Latin
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