intervallum

English

Etymology

From Latin intervallum.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌɪntə(ɹ)ˈvæləm/

Noun

intervallum (plural intervallums or intervalla)

1. An interval.
   • c. 1596–1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Fourth, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene i]:

     And a' shall laugh without intervallums.

   • 1637, William Chillingworth, The Religion of Protestants a Safe Way to Salvation:

     in one of these intervalla

2. (architecture) The gap between an outer rampart and the fortress it surrounds.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “intervallum”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Hungarian

Etymology

From Latin intervallum.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈintɛrvɒlːum]
• Hyphenation: in‧ter‧val‧lum
• Rhymes: -um

Noun

intervallum (plural intervallumok)

1. interval of time

   Synonym: időköz

2. (mathemtics) interval (a set of real numbers that contains all real numbers lying between any two numbers of the set)
3. (music) interval

   Synonym: hangköz

Declension

Inflection (stem in -o-, back harmony)
	singular	plural
nominative	intervallum	intervallumok
accusative	intervallumot	intervallumokat
dative	intervallumnak	intervallumoknak
instrumental	intervallummal	intervallumokkal
causal-final	intervallumért	intervallumokért
translative	intervallummá	intervallumokká
terminative	intervallumig	intervallumokig
essive-formal	intervallumként	intervallumokként
essive-modal	—	—
inessive	intervallumban	intervallumokban
superessive	intervallumon	intervallumokon
adessive	intervallumnál	intervallumoknál
illative	intervallumba	intervallumokba
sublative	intervallumra	intervallumokra
allative	intervallumhoz	intervallumokhoz
elative	intervallumból	intervallumokból
delative	intervallumról	intervallumokról
ablative	intervallumtól	intervallumoktól
non-attributive possessive - singular	intervallumé	intervallumoké
non-attributive possessive - plural	intervalluméi	intervallumokéi

Possessive forms of intervallum
possessor	single possession	multiple possessions
1st person sing.	intervallumom	intervallumaim
2nd person sing.	intervallumod	intervallumaid
3rd person sing.	intervalluma	intervallumai
1st person plural	intervallumunk	intervallumaink
2nd person plural	intervallumotok	intervallumaitok
3rd person plural	intervallumuk	intervallumaik

Derived terms

• intervallumos
• intervallumú

 

Expressions

• megbízhatósági intervallum

 

Further reading

• intervallum in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (“The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language”, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN

Latin

Etymology

From inter (“between”) +‎ vallum (“a rampart”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /in.terˈu̯al.lum/, [ɪn̪t̪ɛrˈu̯älːʲʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /in.terˈval.lum/, [in̪t̪erˈvälːum]

Noun

intervallum n (genitive intervallī); second declension

1. The open space within the vallum of a camp or between palisades or ramparts.
2. interval, distance
   • c. 731 CE, Bede, Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum 1.1:

     Brittania Oceani insula, cui quondam Albion nomen fuit, inter septentrionem et occidentem locata est, Germaniae, Galliae, Hispaniae, maximis Europae partibus, multo intervallo adversa.

     Britain, an island in the ocean, formerly called Albion, is situated between the north and west, facing, though at a considerable distance, the coasts of Germany, France, and Spain, which form the greatest part of Europe.

3. interval of time, pause, intermission

   Synonym: spatium

4. difference
5. (music) interval

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

	singular	plural
nominative	intervallum	intervalla
genitive	intervallī	intervallōrum
dative	intervallō	intervallīs
accusative	intervallum	intervalla
ablative	intervallō	intervallīs
vocative	intervallum	intervalla

Related terms

• intervectus
• intervellō

Descendants

• Catalan: interval
• Old French: intervalle
  • French: intervalle
  • → Middle English: intervalle
    • English: interval
• Galician: intervalo
• → German: Intervall
• Italian: intervallo
• Portuguese: intervalo
• → Russian: интервал (interval)
• Sicilian: ntirvaḍḍu
• Spanish: intervalo

References

• “intervallum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “intervallum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• intervallum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to be equidistant: paribus intervallis distare
    
  • at a great distance: longo spatio, intervallo interiecto
    
  • to be separated by an immense interval of space and time: intervallo locorum et temporum disiunctum esse
    
  • after a fairly long interval: satis longo intervallo