balaustium
Latin
Etymology
Via Ancient Greek βαλαύστιον (balaústion) from Semitic, related to Imperial Aramaic 𐡁𐡀𐡋𐡀𐡈 (bʾlʾṭ, “pomegranate shoot”), Classical Syriac ܒܠܳܨܳܐ (blāṣā, “pomegranate shoot”).
Noun
balaustium n (genitive balaustiī or balaustī); second declension
- the flower of the wild pomegranate
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter).
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | balaustium | balaustia |
Genitive | balaustiī balaustī1 |
balaustiōrum |
Dative | balaustiō | balaustiīs |
Accusative | balaustium | balaustia |
Ablative | balaustiō | balaustiīs |
Vocative | balaustium | balaustia |
1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).
Descendants
- Italian: balaustro, balaustre
- → French: balustre
- ⇒ Italian: balaustrata
- → French: balustrade
- → Belarusian: балюстра́да (baljustráda)
- → Bulgarian: балюстра̀да (baljustràda)
- → Czech: balustráda
- → German: Balustrade
- → English: balustrade
- → Macedonian: балустрада (balustrada)
- → Polish: balustrada
- → Russian: балюстра́да (baljustráda)
- → Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic script: балустра́да
- Latin script: balustráda
- → Slovak: balustráda
- → Slovene: balustráda
- → French: balustrade
References
- “balaustium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- balaustium 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)
- balaustium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.