baiulus

Latin

Alternative forms

• bajulus

Etymology

Unknown. It could easily be an element of non-Indo-European substrate vocabulary via employment of foreign workers, though per de Vaan it could have been borrowed through Germanic (compare *pakkô) or Proto-Celtic *baskis.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈbai̯.i̯u.lus/, [ˈbäi̯ːʊɫ̪ʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈba.ju.lus/, [ˈbäːjulus]

Noun

baiulus m (genitive baiulī); second declension

1. a carrier: a porter
2. one who carries an activity out or on, particularly:
   1. a manager: a steward or (Medieval Latin) bailiff
   2. an administrator

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	baiulus	baiulī
Genitive	baiulī	baiulōrum
Dative	baiulō	baiulīs
Accusative	baiulum	baiulōs
Ablative	baiulō	baiulīs
Vocative	baiule	baiulī

Derived terms

• *baiulīvus
• baiulō
• sūtriballus

 

Descendants

• Aragonese: baile
  • → Spanish: baile
• Italian: baglio; → baiulo
• Old Occitan: baile
  • Catalan: batlle, batle
  • Occitan: baile
  • → Venetan: bailo
    • → English: bailo, baylo, Bailo, Baylo
    • → French: baile (from 17th century)
    • → German: Bailo
    • → Byzantine Greek: βαΐλος (baḯlos)
      • Greek: βάιλος (váilos)
    • → Italian: bailo
    • → Russian: байло (bajlo)
    • → Old Anatolian Turkish:
      • Ottoman Turkish: بالیوس (balyos), بالیوز (balyoz)
        • → Arabic: باليوس (balyōs), باليوز (balyōz)
          • → Swahili: balozi (“ambassador”)
        • → Albanian: bajloz, baloz
        • → Armenian: պալիոզ (palioz), պալիոս (palios), պալեոզ (paleoz), պալյոզ (palyoz), պալիօզ (paliōz), պալիօս (paliōs), պալյօզ (palyōz) — traditional orthography
        • → Northern Kurdish: balyoz
        • → Turkish: balyoz (learned)
• Romanian: baieră
• ⇒ Vulgar Latin: *baiula
  • French: baille
    • → Middle Low German: ballie
      • → Danish: balje
        • → Icelandic: bali
      • → Norwegian: balje
      • → Swedish: balja
    • → Polish: balia
      • → Yiddish: באַליע (balye)

References

• Ernout, Alfred, Meillet, Antoine (1985) “baiulus”, in Dictionnaire étymologique de la langue latine: histoire des mots‎^[1] (in French), 4th edition, with additions and corrections of Jacques André, Paris: Klincksieck, published 2001, page 64
• “baiulus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “baiulus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7)‎^[2], Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN