balustre

balustre (plural balustres)

1. Alternative form of baluster

• Albertus, Breaults, baluster, bluestar, rustable

Borrowed from Italian balaustro.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [bəˈlus.tɾə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencian) [baˈlus.tɾe]

balustre m (plural balustres)

1. (architecture) baluster

• balustrada

• “balustre” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “balustre”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “balustre” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “balustre” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Inherited from Middle French, from Italian balaustro, from Latin balaustĭum. See English baluster for more.

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• Homophones: balustrent, balustres

balustre m (plural balustres)

1. baluster [from 16th c.]
2. balustrade [from 17th c.]

balustre

1. inflection of balustrer:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

• “balustre”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

From Italian balaustro.

balustre m (plural balustres)

1. baluster

• French: balustre
• → English: baluster

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balustre m (plural balustres)

1. (Jersey) banister