balineum

Latin

Etymology

From earlier *balaneum, a borrowing from Ancient Greek βαλανεῖον (balaneîon), which displays vowel reduction of a to i.

Pronunciation

• (Plautine) IPA^(key): [ˈba.lɪ.ne.ũː]
• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [baˈlɪ.ne.ũː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [baˈliː.ne.um]

Noun

balineum n (genitive balineī); second declension

1. Plautine and later archaic form of balneum

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

	singular	plural
nominative	balineum	balinea
genitive	balineī	balineōrum
dative	balineō	balineīs
accusative	balineum	balinea
ablative	balineō	balineīs
vocative	balineum	balinea

References

• “balineum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• "balineum", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “balineum”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.