# intervallum
## English

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### Etymology

From Latin intervallum.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˌɪntə(ɹ)ˈvæləm/

### Noun

intervallum (plural intervallums or intervalla)
* An interval.
** c. 1596–1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Fourth, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene i]:And a' shall laugh without intervallums.
** 1637, William Chillingworth, The Religion of Protestants a Safe Way to Salvation:in one of these intervalla
* (architecture) The gap between an outer rampart and the fortress it surrounds.
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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 “intervallum”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

## Hungarian
### Etymology

From Latin intervallum.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈintɛrvɒlːum]
* Hyphenation: in‧ter‧val‧lum
* Rhymes: -um

### Noun

intervallum (plural intervallumok)
* interval of time
    Synonym: időköz
* (mathemtics) interval (a set of real numbers that contains all real numbers lying between any two numbers of the set)
* (music) interval
    Synonym: hangköz

#### Derived terms

* intervallumos
* intervallumú
* megbízhatósági intervallum

### References

* ↑ Tótfalusi, István. Idegenszó-tár: Idegen szavak értelmező és etimológiai szótára (’A Storehouse of Foreign Words: an explanatory and etymological dictionary of foreign words’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2005. →ISBN

### Further reading

* intervallum in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (“The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language”, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN

## Latin
### Etymology

From inter (“between”) +‎ vallum (“a rampart”).

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /in.terˈu̯al.lum/, [ɪn̪t̪ɛrˈu̯älːʲʊ̃ˑ]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /in.terˈval.lum/, [in̪t̪erˈvälːum]

### Noun

intervallum n (genitive intervallī); second declension
* The open space within the vallum of a camp or between palisades or ramparts.
* interval, distance
** c. 731 CE, Bede, Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum 1.1:Brittania Oceani insula, cui quondam Albion nomen fuit, inter septentrionem et occidentem locata est, Germaniae, Galliae, Hispaniae, maximis Europae partibus, multo intervallo adversa.Britain, an island in the ocean, formerly called Albion, is situated between the north and west, facing, though at a considerable distance, the coasts of Germany, France, and Spain, which form the greatest part of Europe.
* interval of time, pause, intermission
    Synonym: spatium
* difference
* (music) interval

#### Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

#### Related terms

* intervectus
* intervellō

#### Descendants

* Catalan: interval
* Old French: intervalle
** French: intervalle
** → Middle English: intervalle
*** English: interval
* Galician: intervalo
* → German: Intervall
* Italian: intervallo
* Portuguese: intervalo
* → Russian: интервал (interval)
* Sicilian: ntirvaḍḍu
* Spanish: intervalo

### References

* “intervallum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* “intervallum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
* intervallum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
* Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co. to be equidistant: paribus intervallis distare at a great distance: longo spatio, intervallo interiecto to be separated by an immense interval of space and time: intervallo locorum et temporum disiunctum esse after a fairly long interval: satis longo intervallo