balaena

Contents

LatinEdit

Alternative formsEdit

• bālēna

EtymologyEdit

From Ancient Greek φάλαινα (phálaina).

PronunciationEdit

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /baːˈlae̯.na/, [baːˈɫae̯.na]

NounEdit

bālaena f (genitive bālaenae); first declension

1. a whale

InflectionEdit

First declension.

Case	Singular	Plural
nominative	bālaena	bālaenae
genitive	bālaenae	bālaenārum
dative	bālaenae	bālaenīs
accusative	bālaenam	bālaenās
ablative	bālaenā	bālaenīs
vocative	bālaena	bālaenae

Related termsEdit

• bālaenācius

DescendantsEdit

• Asturian: ballena, baḷḷena
• Basque: balea
• Catalan: balena
• Corsican: balena
• Emilian: baläṅna
• English: baleen
• French: baleine
• Friulian: balene
• Galician: balea
• Guinea-Bissau Creole: baleia
• Hungarian: bálna
• Italian: balena
• Karipúna Creole French: balén
• Ladin: balena
• Middle French: baleine

• Mozarabic: [script needed] (balléna), [script needed] (ballína)
• Occitan: balena
• Old Portuguese: balẽa
• Piedmontese: balena
• Portuguese: baleia
• Romanian: balenă
• Romansch: balena
• Sardinian: balèna
• Spanish: ballena
• Venetian: bałéna
• Walloon: ballaînn

ReferencesEdit

• balaena in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• balaena in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “balaena” in Félix Gaffiot’s Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette (1934)