balustrada

See also: balustráda, balustradă, and balustradą

Catalan

Etymology

From balustre +‎ -ada.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [bə.lusˈtɾa.ðə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ba.lusˈtɾa.ða]

• Audio (Barcelona):

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Noun

balustrada f (plural balustrades)

1. balustrade

Further reading

• “balustrada”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “balustrada”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2026
• “balustrada” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• Alcover, Antoni Maria; Moll, Francesc de Borja (1963), “balustrada”, in Diccionari català-valencià-balear (in Catalan)

Polish

balustrada

Etymology

Etymology tree

Latin balaustium

Italian balaustro

Proto-Indo-European *-h₂

Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂

Proto-Indo-European *-tós

Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂tos

Proto-Italic *-ātos

Latin -ātus

Latin -āta

Italian -ata

Italian balaustratabor.

Middle French balustrade

French balustradebor.

Polish balustrada

Borrowed from French balustrade.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ba.lusˈtra.da/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -ada
• Syllabification: ba‧lus‧tra‧da

Noun

balustrada f (diminutive balustradka, related adjective balustradowy)

1. balustrade (row of balusters topped by a rail, serving as an open parapet, as along the edge of a balcony, terrace, bridge, staircase, or the eaves of a building)

   Hypernym: ogrodzenie

Declension

Declension of balustrada

	singular	plural
nominative	balustrada	balustrady
genitive	balustrady	balustrad
dative	balustradzie	balustradom
accusative	balustradę	balustrady
instrumental	balustradą	balustradami
locative	balustradzie	balustradach
vocative	balustrado	balustrady

Further reading

• “balustrada”, in Wielki słownik języka polskiego‎^[1] (in Polish), Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• “balustrada”, in Polish dictionaries at PWN‎^[2] (in Polish)
• balustrada in PWN's encyclopedia