vallo
See also: Vallo and valló
Galician
Verb
vallo
- first-person singular present indicative of valer
Italian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈval.lo/
- Rhymes: -allo
- Hyphenation: vàl‧lo
Etymology 1
Borrowed from Latin vallum.
Noun
vallo m (plural valli)
- (historical, Ancient Rome) the wooden fence built at the top of a rampart
- (historical, Ancient Rome, loosely) rampart, bulwark
- (literary) fortification
- Synonym: fortificazione
- (poetic, figurative) bastion, defense
- Synonyms: baluardo, bastione, trincea
Related terms
- vallare
Etymology 2
Gender shift from valle, from Latin vallem.
Noun
vallo m (plural valli)
- Alternative form of valle (“valley”)
Etymology 3
Inherited from Latin vallus, diminutive of vannus (“winnowing basket”).
Noun
vallo m (plural valli)
- (dialectal) sieve
- Synonyms: crivello, setaccio
Etymology 4
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb
vallo
- compound of val, the second-person singular (tu) imperative form of andare, with lo
Etymology 5
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb
vallo
- first-person singular present indicative of vallare
Further reading
- vallo1 in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
- vallo2 in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
- vallo3 in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
Latin
Etymology
From the noun vallum (“fence, rampart”)
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈu̯al.loː/, [ˈu̯älːʲoː]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈval.lo/, [ˈvälːo]
Verb
vallō (present infinitive vallāre, perfect active vallāvī, supine vallātum); first conjugation
- I surround, wall or fortify with a rampart or palisade
Usage notes
- The nature of the root vowel (i.e. whether it is văllō or vāllō) 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.
Conjugation
| Conjugation of vallō (first conjugation) | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| indicative | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| active | present | vallō | vallās | vallat | vallāmus | vallātis | vallant |
| imperfect | vallābam | vallābās | vallābat | vallābāmus | vallābātis | vallābant | |
| future | vallābō | vallābis | vallābit | vallābimus | vallābitis | vallābunt | |
| perfect | vallāvī | vallāvistī | vallāvit | vallāvimus | vallāvistis | vallāvērunt, vallāvēre | |
| pluperfect | vallāveram | vallāverās | vallāverat | vallāverāmus | vallāverātis | vallāverant | |
| future perfect | vallāverō | vallāveris | vallāverit | vallāverimus | vallāveritis | vallāverint | |
| passive | present | vallor | vallāris, vallāre | vallātur | vallāmur | vallāminī | vallantur |
| imperfect | vallābar | vallābāris, vallābāre | vallābātur | vallābāmur | vallābāminī | vallābantur | |
| future | vallābor | vallāberis, vallābere | vallābitur | vallābimur | vallābiminī | vallābuntur | |
| perfect | vallātus + present active indicative of sum | ||||||
| pluperfect | vallātus + imperfect active indicative of sum | ||||||
| future perfect | vallātus + future active indicative of sum | ||||||
| subjunctive | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| active | present | vallem | vallēs | vallet | vallēmus | vallētis | vallent |
| imperfect | vallārem | vallārēs | vallāret | vallārēmus | vallārētis | vallārent | |
| perfect | vallāverim | vallāverīs | vallāverit | vallāverīmus | vallāverītis | vallāverint | |
| pluperfect | vallāvissem | vallāvissēs | vallāvisset | vallāvissēmus | vallāvissētis | vallāvissent | |
| passive | present | valler | vallēris, vallēre | vallētur | vallēmur | vallēminī | vallentur |
| imperfect | vallārer | vallārēris, vallārēre | vallārētur | vallārēmur | vallārēminī | vallārentur | |
| perfect | vallātus + present active subjunctive of sum | ||||||
| pluperfect | vallātus + imperfect active subjunctive of sum | ||||||
| imperative | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| active | present | — | vallā | — | — | vallāte | — |
| future | — | vallātō | vallātō | — | vallātōte | vallantō | |
| passive | present | — | vallāre | — | — | vallāminī | — |
| future | — | vallātor | vallātor | — | — | vallantor | |
| non-finite forms | active | passive | |||||
| present | perfect | future | present | perfect | future | ||
| infinitives | vallāre | vallāvisse | vallātūrum esse | vallārī | vallātum esse | vallātum īrī | |
| participles | vallāns | — | vallātūrus | — | vallātus | vallandus | |
| verbal nouns | gerund | supine | |||||
| genitive | dative | accusative | ablative | accusative | ablative | ||
| vallandī | vallandō | vallandum | vallandō | vallātum | vallātū | ||
Descendants
- Italian: vallare
- Spanish: vallar
- Galician: valar
Noun
vallō
- dative/ablative singular of vallum
References
- “vallo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “vallo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- vallo 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)
- vallo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
- Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- (ambiguous) to fortify the camp with a rampart: castra munire vallo (aggere)
- (ambiguous) to keep watch on the rampart: custodias agere in vallo
- (ambiguous) to surround a town with a rampart and fosse: oppidum cingere vallo et fossa
- (ambiguous) to fortify the camp with a rampart: castra munire vallo (aggere)
Spanish
Verb
vallo
- first-person singular present indicative of vallar