castellanus
English
Etymology
From New Latin castellānus, from Medieval Latin castellum (“castle, fortress”) + -ānus (“-an: forming adj.”), from castrum (“fort”) + -ellum (“-elle: forming diminutives”). Doublet of Castilian, castellano, castellan, and chatelain.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˌkæstəˈlɑːnəs/
Noun
castellanus (plural castellani)
- (meteorology) A cloud species which shows vertical formations giving a crenellated appearance, associated with cirrus, cirrocumulus, altocumulus, and stratocumulus genera.
- Synonym: castellatus
- 1993, Monthly Weather Review - Volume 121, Issues 10-12, page 2709:
- Over France the altocumuli castellani clouds at medium level indicate a very unstable air mass there, because these clouds often develop into thunderstorms.
- Alternative form of castellan
- 1979, Adolf M., Kaegi Hakkert (Walter E.), Byzantinische Forschungen - Volume 6, page 17:
- In addition to the rettori, there were castellani of the fort in the town of Chios and of fourteen other forts in the society's island. The castellanus of the urban fort was chosen by a complicated process of indirect election resembling that which determined the Podestà, and again like him was to be drawn from the popolari of Genoa.
- 1998, Guillaume IX ((duc d'Aquitaine ;), Ralph Henry Carless Davis, & Marjorie Chibnall, The Gesta Guillelmi of William of Poitiers, page xli:
- Castle garrisons are castellani; WP does not use the term oppidani.
- 2001, Adam J. Kosto, Making Agreements in Medieval Catalonia, →ISBN:
- In these documents conderning the castle of Talarn, however, the term castellanus is applied to both of the bottom two levels of the hierarchy: the texts imply that both Oliver Bernat and Guillem Folc are castellani.
Further reading
Latin
Adjective
castellānus (feminine castellāna, neuter castellānum); first/second-declension adjective
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
Nominative | castellānus | castellāna | castellānum | castellānī | castellānae | castellāna | |
Genitive | castellānī | castellānae | castellānī | castellānōrum | castellānārum | castellānōrum | |
Dative | castellānō | castellānō | castellānīs | ||||
Accusative | castellānum | castellānam | castellānum | castellānōs | castellānās | castellāna | |
Ablative | castellānō | castellānā | castellānō | castellānīs | |||
Vocative | castellāne | castellāna | castellānum | castellānī | castellānae | castellāna |
Descendants
- Catalan: castellà
- Friulian: cjiscjelan
- Italian: castellano
- Occitan: castelan
- Old French: castelain
- Old Galician-Portuguese: castelão
- Romansch: chastlan, chastlaun, chastellan
- Spanish: castellano
- → Catalan: castellà
- → English: castellano
- → French: castillan
- → Italian: castigliano
- → Romanian: castilian
- → Portuguese: castelhano
- → Romanian: castelan
Noun
castellānus m (genitive castellānī); second declension
Declension
Second-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | castellānus | castellānī |
Genitive | castellānī | castellānōrum |
Dative | castellānō | castellānīs |
Accusative | castellānum | castellānōs |
Ablative | castellānō | castellānīs |
Vocative | castellāne | castellānī |
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