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English word castle comes from Proto-Indo-European *kes-, Proto-Indo-European *kat-, and later Old French (842-ca. 1400) chastel (Castle, fortress.)
*kes- (Proto-Indo-European)
*kat- (Proto-Indo-European)
castrum (Latin)
(chiefly plural) camp, especially a military camp. Castle, fort.
castellum (Late Latin)
castellum (Latin)
(figuratively) a shelter, stronghold, defence, refuge. A structure in which the water of an aqueduct is collected, to be distributed by pipes or channels in different directions; a reservoir. Castle, fort, citadel, fortress, stronghold.
chastel (Old French)
Castle, fortress.
castel (Old English)
Castle. Town; village.
castel (Middle English)
Castle.
castle (English)
(cricket) To bowl a batsman with a full-length ball or yorker such that the stumps are knocked over.. (obsolete) To make into a castle: to build in the form of a castle or add (real or imitation) battlements to an existing building.. (transitive) To house or keep in a castle.. (transitive, figurative) To protect or separate in a similar way.. (usually, _, intransitive, chess) To move the [...]