User:Danny lost/sandbox/baluster

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English

Different types of baluster

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Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French balustre, from Italian balaustro (pillar), from balausta, balaustio (wild pomegranate flower), from Latin balaustium, from Ancient Greek βαλαύστιον (balaústion), from Semitic (compare Classical Syriac ܒܠܳܨܳܐ (blāṣā, bud, shoot)). Doublet of banister.

Pronunciation

  • (US) IPA(key): /ˈbæl.ʌ.stɹ/
  • Audio (US):(file)
  • Rhymes: -ælʌstɹ

Noun

baluster (plural balusters)

  1. (architecture) A short column used in a group to support a rail, as commonly found on the side of a stairway or around a balcony; a banister.
    Synonym: banister
    • 1604, Stephen Harrison, “The Deuice called, Cozmoz Neoz, New World.”, in The arch's of triumph erected in honor of the high and mighty prince. Iames. ... at his Maiesties entrance and passage through his honorable citty & chamber of London. vpon the 15th. day of march 1603. ..., via EEBO:
      The two Posternes were answerable to those of others set downe before: and were cut out of the two round Towers which riz vp in proportionable measures, from the ground on the foreside with battlements and Ballisters round enclosing the tops, containing in all their heights — foote:
    • 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 3, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:
      Sepia Delft tiles surrounded the fireplace, their crudely drawn Biblical scenes in faded cyclamen blending with the pinkish pine, while above them, instead of a mantelshelf, there was an archway high enough to form a balcony with slender balusters and a tapestry-hung wall behind.
    • 2004, Alan Hollinghurst, chapter 17, in The Line of Beauty , London: Picador, →ISBN:
      Nick looked at the floor, and at the rhythm of the black-and-gilt S-shaped balusters.

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Danish

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Etymology

Borrowed from French balustre, from Latin balaustium, from Ancient Greek βαλαύστιον (balaústion).

Noun

baluster c (singular definite Danny lost/sandbox/balusteren, plural indefinite Danny lost/sandbox/balustere)

  1. baluster

Declension

Declension of Danny lost/sandbox/baluster
common
gender
singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative Danny lost/sandbox/baluster Danny lost/sandbox/balusteren Danny lost/sandbox/balustere Danny lost/sandbox/balusterne
genitive Danny lost/sandbox/balusters Danny lost/sandbox/balusterens Danny lost/sandbox/balusteres Danny lost/sandbox/balusternes

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Dutch

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Etymology

Borrowed from French balustre, from Latin balaustium, from Ancient Greek βαλαύστιον (balaústion).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˌbaː.lys.ˈtɛr/
  • Audio:(file)
  • Hyphenation: ba‧lus‧ter

Noun

baluster m (plural balusters, diminutive balustertje n)

  1. (architecture) baluster

Swedish

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Etymology

Borrowed from French balustre, from Latin balaustium, from Ancient Greek βαλαύστιον (balaústion).

Noun

baluster c

  1. (architecture) a baluster (a short column used in a group to support a rail)

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