vadum

Latin

Alternative forms

• vadus

Etymology

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).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈu̯a.dum/, [ˈu̯äd̪ʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈva.dum/, [ˈväːd̪um]

Noun

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

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

• vadōsus

Related terms

• vadō

Descendants

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

Further reading

• “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.