vadum.
shallow place, stream; ford, shoal; channel;
Meaning & usage
A shallow, ford, shoal
A body of water; sea, stream
The bottom of a body of water
a “shallow” as a metaphor for circumstances implying either safety or danger, similar to a boat in shallow water
Where this word comes from
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *weh₂dʰ- Proto-Indo-European *-óm Proto-Indo-European *wh₂dʰóm Proto-Italic *waðom Latin vadum From Proto-Italic *waðom, from Proto-Indo-European *uh₂dʰóm (compare Proto-Germanic *wadą), from the root *weh₂dʰ-, the same source as vādō. Cognate with Old English wadan (whence English wade).
genitive plural of vas (“bail”)
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