batillum

Latin

Alternative forms

• batillus, vatillum

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /baˈtil.lum/, [bäˈt̪ɪlːʲʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /baˈtil.lum/, [bäˈt̪ilːum]

Noun

batillum m (genitive batillī); second declension

1. a shovel
2. a firepan, chafing dish

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

	singular	plural
nominative	batillum	batilla
genitive	batillī	batillōrum
dative	batillō	batillīs
accusative	batillum	batilla
ablative	batillō	batillīs
vocative	batillum	batilla

Descendants

• ⇒ Vulgar Latin: *batīle
  • Italo-Romance:
    • Italian: badile
  • Padanian:
    • Emilian: badil
    • Lombard: badil
    • Ligurian: bèi, baì
    • Piedmontese: bèil, sbèil
  • Ibero-Romance:
    • Galician: badil
    • Portuguese: badele (dialectal), badil (Transmontano)
    • Spanish: badil
• ⇒ Vulgar Latin: *vatīle
  • Padanian:
    • Piedmontese: vèil, vàir
  • Northern Gallo-Romance:
    • Champenois: vaillin
    • Zarphatic Old French: vadil, vayi, veyil, vain, vaiïn

References

• “batillum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “batillum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers