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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 [...]

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