different between vallum vs vellum

English

Etymology

From Latin vallum. Doublet of wall comes from this word via a Proto-Germanic borrowing from Latin.

Noun

vallum (plural vallums or valla)

1. (historical, Roman antiquity) A rampart; a wall, as in a fortification.
2. (anatomy) The eyebrow.

Latin

Etymology

From vallus (“stake, palisade, point”), from Proto-Indo-European *wel- (“to turn, wind, roll”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?u?al.lum/, [?u?äl?????]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?val.lum/, [?v?l?um]

Noun

vallum n (genitive vall?); second declension

1. wall, rampart, entrenchment

Usage notes

• The nature of the root vowel (v?llum or v?llum) is not properly known. Most dictionaries that specify vowel length in closed syllables, especially those published in the 21st century, do not mark it as long.

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Derived terms

• intervallum

Descendants

• Italian: vallo
• Old Occitan:
  • Catalan: vall
• Old Portuguese:
  • Galician: valo
  • Portuguese: valo, vala
• Old Spanish:
  • Spanish: valla
    • ? Catalan: valla
• ? Albanian: avulli
• ? English: vallum (learned)
• ? Czech: val
• ? Polish: wa?
• ? Romanian: val
• ? West Germanic: *wall (see there for further descendants)

References

• vallum in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• vallum in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• vallum in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• vallum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book?^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
• vallum in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• vallum in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

English

Etymology

From Old French velin (French vélin), from Latin vitulinus (“of a calf”), as if derived from Old French veel (“veal”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?v?l?m/

Noun

vellum (countable and uncountable, plural vellums)

1. A type of parchment paper made from the skin of a lamb, baby goat, or calf.
2. A writing paper of very high quality.

Translations

See also

• bookfell
• parchment

Anagrams

• mulvel

Icelandic

Noun

vellum f

1. indefinite dative plural of vella

Verb

vellum

1. first-person plural present indicative of vella
2. first-person plural present subjunctive of vella

Old Norse

Noun

vellum

1. dative plural of vell
2. dative plural of vella

Verb

vellum

1. inflection of vella
   1. first-person plural present indicative of vella
   2. first-person plural imperative of vella