# vallo
## Galician
### Verb

vallo
* first-person singular present indicative of valer

## Italian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /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 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

* vallo$^1$ in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
* vallo$^2$ in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
* vallo$^3$ in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

## Latin
### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈu̯al.loː/, [ˈu̯älːʲoː]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈval.lo/, [ˈvälːo]

### Etymology 1

From vallum (“wall, rampart”) +‎ -ō.

#### Verb

vallō (present infinitive vallāre, perfect active vallāvī, supine vallātum); first conjugation
* to 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.

##### Descendants

* Italian: vallare
* Spanish: vallar
* Galician: valar

### Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Noun

vallō
* dative/ablative singular of vallum (“wall”)

### Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Noun

vallō
* dative/ablative singular of vallus (“stake”)

### 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

## Spanish
### Verb

vallo
* first-person singular present indicative of vallar