waldus

Latin

Alternative forms

• waldum

Etymology

Either from Old High German or Old Saxon wald (“forest”), both from Proto-West Germanic *walþu, from Proto-Germanic *walþuz. Doublet of walda, from Middle English.

Noun

waldus n (genitive waldī); second declension (Early Medieval Latin)

1. A forest, a wood, a grove.

   Synonym: silva

Inflection

Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem).

	singular	plural
nominative	waldus	waldora
genitive	waldoris	waldorum
dative	waldorī	waldoribus
accusative	waldus	waldora
ablative	waldore	waldoribus
vocative	waldus	waldora

References

• Aebischer, Paul (1933) “Les pluriels analogiques en -ora dans les chartes latines de l’Italie”, in Archivum Latinitatis Medii Aevi‎^[1] (in French), volume 8, pages 5-76
• Michele Loporcaro with Vincenzo Faraoni and Piero Adolfo Di Pretoro (2012) Vicende storiche della lingua di Roma‎^[2] (in Italian), Alessandria: Edizioni dell’Orso
• waldus 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)