balbus
See also: Balbus
Latin
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Indo-European *balb-, *balbal- (“tongue-tied”), of onomatopoeic origin. Cognate with Ancient Greek βαμβαίνω (bambaínō), βαμβαλύζω (bambalúzō, “I chatter with the teeth”), Russian болтать (boltatʹ, “to chatter, babble”), Lithuanian balbė́ti (“to talk, babble”), Sanskrit बल्बला (balbalā, “stammering”), Albanian belbët (“stammering”). See also bālō, blatiō, blaterō.[1]
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈbal.bus/, [ˈbäɫ̪bʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈbal.bus/, [ˈbälbus]
Adjective
[edit]balbus (feminine balba, neuter balbum); first/second-declension adjective
Declension
[edit]First/second-declension adjective.
| singular | plural | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| masculine | feminine | neuter | masculine | feminine | neuter | ||
| nominative | balbus | balba | balbum | balbī | balbae | balba | |
| genitive | balbī | balbae | balbī | balbōrum | balbārum | balbōrum | |
| dative | balbō | balbae | balbō | balbīs | |||
| accusative | balbum | balbam | balbum | balbōs | balbās | balba | |
| ablative | balbō | balbā | balbō | balbīs | |||
| vocative | balbe | balba | balbum | balbī | balbae | balba | |
Derived terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “balbus”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 68
Further reading
[edit]- “balbus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “balbus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- "balbus", 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)
- balbus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “balbus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “balbus”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray