baiulus
Latin edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
Unknown. It could easily be an element of non-Indo-European substrate vocabulary via employment of foreign workers, though per de Vaan it could have been borrowed through Germanic (compare *pakkô) or Proto-Celtic *baskis.
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈbai̯.i̯u.lus/, [ˈbäi̯ːʊɫ̪ʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈba.ju.lus/, [ˈbäːjulus]
Noun edit
baiulus m (genitive baiulī); second declension
- a carrier: a porter
- one who carries an activity out or on, particularly:
- a manager: a steward or (Medieval) bailiff
- an administrator
Declension edit
Second-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | baiulus | baiulī |
Genitive | baiulī | baiulōrum |
Dative | baiulō | baiulīs |
Accusative | baiulum | baiulōs |
Ablative | baiulō | baiulīs |
Vocative | baiule | baiulī |
Derived terms edit
Descendants edit
- Aragonese: baile
- → Spanish: baile
- Italian: baglio; → baiulo
- Old Occitan: baile
- Catalan: batlle, batle
- Occitan: baile
- → Venetian: bailo
- Romanian: baieră
- ⇒ Vulgar Latin: *baiula
References edit
- Ernout, Alfred; Meillet, Antoine (1985), “baiulus”, in Dictionnaire étymologique de la langue latine: histoire des mots (in French), with additions and corrections of Jacques André, 4th edition, Paris: Klincksieck, published 2001, page 64
- “baiulus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “baiulus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7)[1], Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN