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A castell forming in 2006.

Borrowed from Catalan castell. Doublet of cashel, castellum, castle, and château.

castell (plural castells)

1. A human tower formed in festivals in Catalonia.

• casteller

human tower

• Catalan: castell (ca) m

• Chinese:
  Mandarin: 人塔 (réntǎ)

• Polish: castell (pl) m

• castell on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• allects, callest, callets, callset

Inherited from Latin castellum, diminutive of castrum. Compare Occitan castèl, French château, and Spanish castillo.

• IPA(key): (Central, Balearic) [kəsˈteʎ]
• IPA(key): (Valencia) [kasˈteʎ]
• Rhymes: -eʎ

castell m (plural castells)

1. castle (fortified structure)
2. (nautical) castle (enclosed area located above the top deck)
3. château (large house)
4. castell (human tower)

• castell de cartes (“house of cards”)

• castell de focs (“fireworks”)

• castell de popa (“aftcastle”)

• castell de proa (“forecastle”)

• castell de sorra (“sandcastle”)

• casteller

• castellà

• → English: castell

• → Spanish: castell

• “castell”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007

• Alcover, Antoni Maria; Moll, Francesc de Borja (1963), “castell”, in Diccionari català-valencià-balear (in Catalan)

castell

1. alternative form of castel

Unadapted borrowing from Catalan castell. Doublet of castillo.

• IPA(key): /kasˈtel/ [kasˈt̪el]
• Rhymes: -el

castell m (plural castells)

1. castell (human tower)

From Middle Welsh castell, from Proto-Brythonic *kastell, from Latin castellum. Compare Breton kastell, Cornish kastel.

• (North Wales, standard, colloquial) IPA(key): /ˈkasdɛɬ/, [ˈkʰastɛɬ]
  • (North Wales, colloquial) IPA(key): /ˈkasdaɬ/, [ˈkʰastaɬ]
• (South Wales) IPA(key): /ˈkasdɛɬ/, [ˈkʰastɛɬ]

castell m (plural cestyll or castelli)

1. castle (fortified building)
2. (chess) rook

• caer

Chess pieces in Welsh · darnau gwyddbwyll (layout · text)
brenin	brenhines	castell	esgob	marchog	gwerinwr

• R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke, et al., editors (1950–present), “castell”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies