balascus

Latin

Alternative forms

• balagius, balantius, balascius, balasius, balescus, palachius, palatius

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic بَلَخْش (balaḵš); see balas for more.

Noun

balascus m (genitive balascī); second declension

1. (Medieval Latin) balas-ruby
   • 1295, Inventaire du trésor du Saint Siège sous Boniface VIII; republished as Bibliothèque de l’École des chartes. Revue d’érudition, volume 43, 1882, page 640:

     In cruce superiori est unus zaffirus, duo balasci et duo smaraldi.

     One sapphire, two balas-rubies, and two emeralds are in the cross above.

Declension

Second-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	balascus	balascī
genitive	balascī	balascōrum
dative	balascō	balascīs
accusative	balascum	balascōs
ablative	balascō	balascīs
vocative	balasce	balascī

References

• balascus 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)
• balascius in Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften (1967– ) Mittellateinisches Wörterbuch, Munich: C.H. Beck
• Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976) “balascus”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: E. J. Brill, page 78