balaustium

Latin

Etymology

Via Ancient Greek βαλαύστιον (balaústion) from Semitic, related to Imperial Aramaic 𐡁𐡀𐡋𐡀𐡈 (bʾlʾṭ, “pomegranate shoot”), Classical Syriac ܒܠܳܨܳܐ (blāṣā, “pomegranate shoot”).

Noun

balaustium n (genitive balaustiī or balaustī); second declension

1. the flower of the wild pomegranate

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	balaustium	balaustia
Genitive	balaustiī balaustī1	balaustiōrum
Dative	balaustiō	balaustiīs
Accusative	balaustium	balaustia
Ablative	balaustiō	balaustiīs
Vocative	balaustium	balaustia

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

Descendants

• Italian: balaustro, balaustre
  • → Middle French: balustre
    • French: balustre
      • → Catalan: balustre
      • → German: Baluster
      • → Serbo-Croatian: (or directly from Italian)
        • Cyrillic script: ба̀лустар
        • Latin script: bàlustar
        • → Macedonian: балустер (baluster)
    • → English: baluster
  • ⇒ Italian: balaustrata
    • → French: balustrade
      • → Belarusian: балюстра́да (baljustráda)
      • → Bulgarian: балюстра́да (baljustráda)
      • → Czech: balustráda
      • → German: Balustrade
      • → English: balustrade
      • → Macedonian: балустрада (balustrada)
      • → Polish: balustrada
      • → Russian: балюстра́да (baljustráda)
      • → Serbo-Croatian:
        • Cyrillic script: балустра́да
        • Latin script: balustráda
      • → Slovak: balustráda
      • → Slovene: balustráda

References

• “balaustium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• balaustium 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)
• balaustium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.