vallum

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈvæləm/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

vallum (plural vallums or valla)

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

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “vallum”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)