Definitions for castellum

castellum cas·tel·lum

Spelling: [ka-stel-uh m]
IPA: /kæˈstɛl əm/

Castellum is a 9 letter English word.

You can make 536 anagrams from letters in castellum (acellmstu).

Definitions for castellum

noun

  1. a small isolated fortress, or one of a series of such fortresses, of the ancient Romans.

Origin of castellum

Latin: fortified settlement, fortress *casterlom *castṛlom *castrelom, equivalent to castr(a) (neuter plural) fortified camp + *-elom diminutive suffix; see -ule,

Examples for castellum

Every castle that they took was burned and destroyed, like Sir Ingelric's castellum at Speen.

I doubt whether the walls of any Roman castellum could have resisted such a ram.

When the tour coalesced with the castellum, a name was required for the entire fortress.

Then we shall be able to invest the castellum closely, leaving a numerous body to prevent any sortie.

In the north-east s before t is still retained—Walloon chestai (chteau, castellum), fiess (fte).

Another is flanked by a capacious vaulted reservoir (castellum) and closed with a door.

On a jutting crag of rock, in plain view from the town below, is an ancient Roman castellum.

Under Drusus a castellum was erected here, which was destroyed by the Franks and the Alemanni.

The site was originally occupied by a Roman 'castellum' which the Visigoths also used as a citadel.

It was then a question which word should prevail,—tour (turris), or chastel (castellum).

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