batillum

Latin

Alternative forms

batillus, vatillum

Pronunciation

(Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [baˈtɪl.lũː]
(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [baˈt̪il.lum]

Noun

batillum m (genitive batillī); second declension

a shovel
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