βαλανεῖον
Ancient Greek edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
Attempts have been made to connect with βάλανος (bálanos, “acorn”), but are semantically unconvincing. According to Beekes, it is Pre-Greek, while Furnée compares Old Georgian აბანოჲ (abanoy, “bathroom”).
Pronunciation edit
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /ba.la.nêː.on/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ba.laˈni.on/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /βa.laˈni.on/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /va.laˈni.on/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /va.laˈni.on/
Noun edit
βᾰλᾰνεῖον • (balaneîon) n (genitive βᾰλᾰνείου); second declension
Inflection edit
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | τὸ βᾰλᾰνεῖον tò balaneîon |
τὼ βᾰλᾰνείω tṑ balaneíō |
τᾰ̀ βᾰλᾰνεῖᾰ tà balaneîa | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ βᾰλᾰνείου toû balaneíou |
τοῖν βᾰλᾰνείοιν toîn balaneíoin |
τῶν βᾰλᾰνείων tôn balaneíōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ βᾰλᾰνείῳ tôi balaneíōi |
τοῖν βᾰλᾰνείοιν toîn balaneíoin |
τοῖς βᾰλᾰνείοις toîs balaneíois | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸ βᾰλᾰνεῖον tò balaneîon |
τὼ βᾰλᾰνείω tṑ balaneíō |
τᾰ̀ βᾰλᾰνεῖᾰ tà balaneîa | ||||||||||
Vocative | βᾰλᾰνεῖον balaneîon |
βᾰλᾰνείω balaneíō |
βᾰλᾰνεῖᾰ balaneîa | ||||||||||
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Derived terms edit
- βᾰλᾰνειόμφᾰλος (balaneiómphalos)
- βᾰλᾰνείτης (balaneítēs)
- βᾰλᾰνεύς (balaneús)
- βᾰλᾰνευτής (balaneutḗs)
- βᾰλᾰνευτῐκός (balaneutikós)
- βᾰλᾰνεύω (balaneúō)
Descendants edit
Descendants of βαλανεῖον in other languages
- Latin: balneum, balineum; balneus m
- Asturian: bañu
- Corsican: bagnu
- Friulian: bagn
- Italian: bagno (see there for further descendants)
- Old Occitan: banh
- Old French: bain
- Old Galician-Portuguese: banno
- Romanian: baie
- Romansch: bogn
- Sicilian: bagnu, vagnu
- Spanish: baño (see there for further descendants)
- Venetian: bagno
- Walloon: bagn
- → Albanian: banjë
- → Proto-Slavic: *baňa (see there for further descendants)
- → Old Armenian: բաղանիք (bałanikʿ), բաղանի (bałani)
- Armenian: բաղնիք (baġnikʿ)
Further reading edit
- “βαλανεῖον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “βαλανεῖον”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- βαλανεῖον in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- βαλανεῖον in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
- Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010), “βαλανεῖον”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 195
- Furnée, Edzard Johan (1979) Vorgriechisch-Kartvelisches: Studien zum ostmediterranen Substrat nebst einem Versuch zu einer neuen pelasgischen Theorie (in German), Editions Peeters, →ISBN, page 37