CASTELLUM → castillo · château · castello
Italian castello is nearly Latin and Portuguese castelo nearly Italian; Spanish broke the e and then pinched it to i; Catalan castell made the ll palatal and dropped the ending; French changed almost every sound of CASTELLUM, leaving the vanished s as a circumflex on château. Romanian has no inherited heir: castel is a modern borrowing.
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CASTELLUM
‘castle (Latin: fort)’
Latin accusative; a small fort, diminutive of CASTRUM
Latin accusative; a small fort, diminutive of CASTRUM
Latin accusative; a small fort, diminutive of CASTRUM
Latin accusative; a small fort, diminutive of CASTRUM
No inherited descendant
Latin accusative; a small fort, diminutive of CASTRUM
Italian castello is nearly Latin and Portuguese castelo nearly Italian; Spanish broke the e and then pinched it to i; Catalan castell made the ll palatal and dropped the ending; French changed almost every sound of CASTELLUM, leaving the vanished s as a circumflex on château. Romanian has no inherited heir: castel is a modern borrowing.
Forms are written in IPA, the International Phonetic Alphabet: one symbol, one sound. Stressed syllables carry ˈ. Dates are approximate and given only where the handbooks agree. 24 word journeys.