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

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.

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