The corpus record — Latin

vallus2

vallus2 · m

a stake

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Where it lives

Georgicon 3 · 2.12/10k
Ab urbe condita libri, erklärt von M. Weissenborn, books 33-34 - 33 1 · 0.87/10k
Elegiae 1 · 0.81/10k
De agri cultura 1 · 0.64/10k
De Bello Civili 2 · 0.62/10k
Ab urbe condita 1 · 0.02/10k

What it meant

1. vallus — Lewis & Short

vallus, i, m.cf. Gr. h(=los, nail,

I a stake, pale.

I In gen. (rare).

a For supporting vines, Verg. G. 1, 264; 2, 25.—

b A pole set with teeth and fastened to a cart, pushed forwards by oxen placed behind; used by the Gauls for cutting grain, Plin. 18, 30, 72, § 296 (in Pall. 7, 2, called vehiculum).—

II Esp., in milit. lang., a stake, palisade, used for intrenchment (freq. and class.): qui labor, quantus agminis; ferre plus dimidiati mensis cibaria ... ferre vallum, etc., Cic. Tusc. 2, 16, 37: Scipio Africanus militem cottidie in opere habuit et triginta dierum frumentum, ad septenos vallos ferre cogebat, Liv. Epit. 57: virgulta vallo caedendo, id. 25, 36, 5: vallum cae dere et parare jubet, id. 33, 5, 4: vallum secum ferente milite, id. 33, 6, 1: quo qui intraverant, se ipsi acutissimis vallis induebant: hos cippos appellabant, Caes. B. G. 7, 73.—

B Transf.

1 Collect. for vallum, a rampart set with palisades, Caes. B. C. 3, 63; Auct. B. Alex. 2, 3; Tib. 1, 10, 9.—

2 In gen., a point, spike: pectinis, a tooth, Ov. Am. 1, 14, 15.

2. vallus — Lewis & Short

vallus, i, f.dim.contr. for vannulus, from vannus,

I a little winnowing-van for grain or provender, Varr. R. R. 1, 52, 2; 1, 23, 5; id. ap. Serv. ad Verg. G. 1, 166.

In the wild

vallus Tibullus, Elegiae 1.10.9
vallos Livy, Ab urbe condita libri, erklärt von M. Weissenborn, books 33-34 - 33 p5
vallus Cato, De agri cultura 14
vallos Livy, Ab urbe condita 3.33.5.9
vallos Vergil, Georgicon 1.264
vallos Julius Caesar, De Bello Civili 3.63.8

6 of 9 attestations shown.

Where it came from

Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine Treated in Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine s.v. uallus (scan p. 759; entry #12653).

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