ballium

English edit

ballium (plural balliums or ballia)

Synonym of bailey (“fortification”)
- 1855, Charles Kingsley, “The True and Tragical History of Mr. John Oxenham of Plymouth”, in Westward Ho!: Or, The Voyages and Adventures of Sir Amyas Leigh, Knight, […], volume I, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Macmillan & Co., →OCLC, page 209:
  [T]he southern court of the ballium had become a flower-garden, with quaint terraces, statues, knots of flowers, clipped yews and hollies, and all the pedantries of the topiarian art.

From baiulus (“porter, carrier, administrator”); compare Italian balia (“wet nurse”), Old French baillier. Cognate of Latin ballivus.

ballium n (genitive balliī); second declension (Medieval Latin)

Borrowed from Old French baile (“palisade”), itself from Latin baculum (“stick, rod”).

ballium n (genitive balliī); second declension (Medieval Latin)

ballium 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)
balium in Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften (1967– ) Mittellateinisches Wörterbuch, Munich: C.H. Beck
R. E. Latham, D. R. Howlett, & R. K. Ashdowne, editors (1975–2013), “baillium”, in Dictionary of Medieval Latin from British Sources‎^[1], London: Oxford University Press for the British Academy, →ISBN, →OCLC
Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976) “baillium”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: E. J. Brill, page 77