balluca

Latin

Alternative forms

• balūca

Etymology

Borrowed from a pre-Roman substrate of Iberia. Doublet of ballūx.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /balˈluː.ka/, [bälˈlʲuːkä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /balˈlu.ka/, [bälˈluːkä]

Noun

ballūca f (genitive ballūcae); first declension

1. gold sand, gold dust
   • 438 CE, Codex Theodosianus 10.19.3

Inflection

First-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	ballūca	ballūcae
genitive	ballūcae	ballūcārum
dative	ballūcae	ballūcīs
accusative	ballūcam	ballūcās
ablative	ballūcā	ballūcīs
vocative	ballūca	ballūcae

Descendants

• Galician: baluga

References

• “ballux”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “balluca” in volume 2, column 1703, line 10 in the Thesaurus Linguae Latinae (TLL Open Access), Berlin (formerly Leipzig): De Gruyter (formerly Teubner), 1900–present