balbus

See also: Balbus

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *balb-, *balbal- (tongue-tied). 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.

Pronunciation

Adjective

balbus (feminine balba, neuter balbum); first/second-declension adjective

  1. stammering, stuttering
  2. lisping
  3. fumbling

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

Number Singular Plural
Case / Gender Masculine Feminine Neuter Masculine Feminine Neuter
Nominative balbus balba balbum balbī balbae balba
Genitive balbī balbae balbī balbōrum balbārum balbōrum
Dative balbō balbō balbīs
Accusative balbum balbam balbum balbōs balbās balba
Ablative balbō balbā balbō balbīs
Vocative balbe balba balbum balbī balbae balba

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Catalan: balb
  • Galician: bouba
  • Old Irish: balb
  • Portuguese: balbo
  • Spanish: bobo

References

  • 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
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