Castellum
Castellum
1. Limes watchtower, Germany (reconstruction).
2. Ruins of castellum divisorium, France.
A castellum[1] in Latin is usually:
- a small Roman fortlet or tower,[2] a diminutive of castrum ("military camp"), often used as a watchtower or signal station like on Hadrian's Wall. It should be distinguished from a burgus, which was a later Latin term that was used particularly in the Germanic provinces.
- a distribution, header and settling tank in a Roman aqueduct or it:castellum aquae.
It is the source of the English word "castle".
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