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ballium
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English
Etymology
From Medieval Latin ballium.
Noun
ballium (plural balliums or ballia)
- Synonym of bailey (“fortification”).
- 1855, Charles Kingsley, “The True and Tragical History of Mr. John Oxenham of Plymouth”, in Westward Ho!: Or, The Voyages and Adventures of Sir Amyas Leigh, Knight, […], volume I, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Macmillan & Co., →OCLC, page 209:
- [T]he southern court of the ballium had become a flower-garden, with quaint terraces, statues, knots of flowers, clipped yews and hollies, and all the pedantries of the topiarian art.
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Latin
Alternative forms
Pronunciation
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈbal.li.um]
Etymology 1
From baiulus (“porter, carrier, administrator”); compare Italian balia (“wet nurse”), Old French baillier. Cognate of Latin ballivus.
Noun
ballium n (genitive balliī); second declension (Medieval Latin)
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter).
Related terms
Etymology 2
Borrowed from Old French baile (“palisade”), itself from Latin baculum (“stick, rod”).
Noun
ballium n (genitive balliī); second declension (Medieval Latin)
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter).
References
- "ballium", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- balium in Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften (1967– ), Mittellateinisches Wörterbuch, Munich: C.H. Beck
- R. E. Latham, D. R. Howlett, & R. K. Ashdowne, editors (1975–2013), “baillium”, in Dictionary of Medieval Latin from British Sources, London: Oxford University Press for the British Academy, →ISBN, →OCLC
- Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976), “baillium”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: E. J. Brill, page 77
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