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- noun historical A small Roman detached fort or
fortlet used as a watch tower or signal station.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Once the cool, rushing mountain water entered the city into a collection area called a castellum—an enormous cistern made of cement-lined stone—the plumbarii took over.
Flushed W. Hodding Carter 2006
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Once the cool, rushing mountain water entered the city into a collection area called a castellum—an enormous cistern made of cement-lined stone—the plumbarii took over.
Flushed W. Hodding Carter 2006
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The castellum is a rectangle, four hundred and sixty-five by seven hundred and four feet, and is surrounded by two deep ditches and by high parapets.
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And when they saw that they were getting nowhere they also prepared hurdles for an attack by storm upon the castellum.
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Sure in Dutch and German there's quite a few very early loanwords like the word for 'horse' paard/pferd from Middle Latin paraveredus and kasteel 'castle' from castellum or maybe an early french dialect without vocalisation of the l.
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From those smaller castellum, smaller lead pipes fed different bathhouses and the public fountains, and even smaller lead pipes ran to private homes.
Flushed W. Hodding Carter 2006
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Water left the castellum via lead pipes that fed smaller water-containment areas within the city walls.
Flushed W. Hodding Carter 2006
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From those smaller castellum, smaller lead pipes fed different bathhouses and the public fountains, and even smaller lead pipes ran to private homes.
Flushed W. Hodding Carter 2006
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Water left the castellum via lead pipes that fed smaller water-containment areas within the city walls.
Flushed W. Hodding Carter 2006
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Atque vltrà montem in discensu eius in orientem est villa siue castellum
jaime_d commented on the word castellum
From "Haile Selassie Funeral Train" by Guy Davenport.
January 19, 2010