vallis
Latin
Etymology 1
Uncertain, but possibly from Proto-Indo-European *welH- (“to turn, wind, roll”), same source as Latin vāllum (“rampart”), North Frisian wal (“wall”), Dutch wal (“wall, rampart, embankment”), German Wall (“rampart, mound, embankment”), Swedish vall (“mound, wall, bank”).[1]
Alternative forms
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈu̯al.lis/, [ˈu̯älːʲɪs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈval.lis/, [ˈvälːis]
Noun
vallis f (genitive vallis); third declension
Inflection
Third-declension noun (i-stem).
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | vallis | vallēs |
| Genitive | vallis | vallium |
| Dative | vallī | vallibus |
| Accusative | vallem | vallēs vallīs |
| Ablative | valle | vallibus |
| Vocative | vallis | vallēs |
Descendants
- Aragonese: bal, ball, balle
- Aromanian: vali, vale
- Old French: val, vaul, valee, valey
- Friulian: val f
- Ladin: val
- Megleno-Romanian: vali
- Norman: valée
- Occitan: val, vath; vau
- Old Galician-Portuguese: vale m
- Picard: vau
- Romanian: vale f
- Romansch: val f
- Sardinian: badde, vadhe, vadde
- Sicilian: vaḍḍi
- Venetian: vałe, val
- Borrowings:
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈu̯aːl.liːs/, [ˈu̯äːlːʲiːs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈval.lis/, [ˈvälːis]
References
- “vallis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- vallis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Franco, Comparative etymological Dictionary of classical Indo-European languages: Indo-European - Sanskrit - Greek - Latin
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