gabalus
Latin
Etymology
From Gaulish gabalos, from Proto-Celtic *gablā (“fork, forked branch”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈɡa.ba.lus/, [ˈɡäbäɫ̪ʊs̠]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈɡa.ba.lus/, [ˈɡäːbälus]
Noun
gabalus m (genitive gabalī); second declension
- a gallows, gibbet
- a cross (instrument of torture)
- a fork (instrument of torture)
Declension
Second-declension noun.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | gabalus | gabalī |
| Genitive | gabalī | gabalōrum |
| Dative | gabalō | gabalīs |
| Accusative | gabalum | gabalōs |
| Ablative | gabalō | gabalīs |
| Vocative | gabale | gabalī |
Synonyms
- (gallows): arbor
- (cross): crux
- (fork): furca
Descendants
- Old French: *javel, javelot, javelline
- Middle English:
- English: javelin
- Middle English:
References
- “gabalus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- gabalus 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)
- gabalus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
- “gabalus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers