Latin

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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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

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

  1. A forest, a wood, a grove.
    Synonym: silva

Inflection

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

References

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  • 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)