balneum
Appearance
Latin
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Ancient Greek βαλανεῖον (balaneîon), apparently borrowed early enough for unstressed reduction of the second /a/ to /ĭ/ and then syncope.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈbal.ne.um/, [ˈbäɫ̪neʊ̃ˑ]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈbal.ne.um/, [ˈbälneum]
Noun
[edit]balneum, balneae n sg (variously declined, genitive balneī, balneārum); second declension, first declension
- bath, bathing place, bathroom
- (Can we date this quote?), Another Letter from Young M. Aurelius to Fronto, quoted in 1879 by Cruttwell and Banton (editors) in Specimens of Roman Literature: Passages Illustrative of Roman Thought and Style, section 188, page 599:
- […] discus crepuit, id est pater meus in balneum transisse nuntiatus est.
- The gong rang, it is announced that my father is going to the bath.
- (Can we date this quote?), Another Letter from Young M. Aurelius to Fronto, quoted in 1879 by Cruttwell and Banton (editors) in Specimens of Roman Literature: Passages Illustrative of Roman Thought and Style, section 188, page 599:
Declension
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The inflection of this noun was irregular. Usually, the plural became feminine and first declension with the specific meaning of a public place for bathing (e.g. public baths): Second-declension noun (neuter) or first-declension noun.
Since the Augustan period the following regular declension was sometimes used: Second-declension noun (neuter).
Occasionally, the back-form balnea was used as a singular. |
Derived terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]Reflexes of the variant baneum:
- Italo-Romance:
- Padanian:
- Gallo-Romance:
- Ibero-Romance:
- Borrowings:
References
[edit]- “balneum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “balneum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- balneum 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)
- balneum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “balneum”, in Samuel Ball Platner (1929) Thomas Ashby, editor, A Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome, London: Oxford University Press
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