FORTIFICATION Copy link • FORTIFICATIONA fortified place, locus munitus (general term for any fortified place): arx (the citadel): castellum: castrum (if a height that commands the surrounding country; a fort): propugnaculum (any work that serves to ward off the attack of an enemy). A natural fortification, locus natura or naturaliter munitus; castellum natura munitum: a strong fortification, oppidum munitissimum or maximis operibus munitum; opere et natura egregie munitus locus; oppidum operibus et natura munitum (if strong from nature and by art): to demolish a fortification, munimenta oppidi solo aequare (or adaequare); castrum diruere: fortifications, operis munitio; opus (or opera) munitionesque; also, munitiones only; munimenta, orum; opera, um, or (of a town = its walls) moenia, ium: the throwing up of fortifications, munitio; communitio. Act of fortifying, munitio: communitio: the art of fortifying, ars muniendi; *architectura militaris; *ars muniendi.