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.li.ne.um/, [ˈbälʲɪneʊ̃ˑ]
• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /baˈli.ne.um/, [bäˈlʲɪneʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /baˈli.ne.um/, [bäˈliːneum]

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’s 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.