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vadum

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Latin

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Proto-Italic *waðom, from Proto-Indo-European *wh₂dʰóm (compare Proto-Germanic *wadą) < *weh₂dʰ-, same source as vādō. Cognate with Old English wadan (English wade).[1]

Pronunciation

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Noun

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vadum n (genitive vadī); second declension

  1. A shallow, ford, shoal.
  2. A body of water; sea, stream.
  3. The bottom of a body of water.

Declension

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Second-declension noun (neuter).

singular plural
nominative vadum vada
genitive vadī vadōrum
dative vadō vadīs
accusative vadum vada
ablative vadō vadīs
vocative vadum vada

Derived terms

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Descendants

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  • Asturian: vau
  • Catalan: gual
  • Friulian: vât, vâd
  • Italian: guado
  • Occitan: ga
  • Old Galician-Portuguese: vao
  • Romanian: vad
  • Sardinian: badu, bau, vadu
  • Sicilian: vadu
  • Spanish: vado
  • →? Albanian: va

References

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  1. ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “vādō, -ere (> Derivatives: > vadum)”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 650

Further reading

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  • “vadum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “vadum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • vadum 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)
  • vadum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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