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Latin
Alternative forms
Etymology
Unknown. Likely from a non-Indo-European substrate source, via employment of foreign workers, though per de Vaan it could have been borrowed through Germanic (compare *pakkô (“pack”)) or Proto-Celtic *baskis (“bundle”).
Pronunciation
Noun
baiulus m (genitive baiulī); second declension
- a carrier: a porter
- one who carries an activity out or on, particularly:
- a manager: a steward or (Medieval Latin) bailiff
- an administrator
Declension
Second-declension noun.
Derived terms
Descendants
References
- Ernout, Alfred, Meillet, Antoine (1985) “baiulus”, in Dictionnaire étymologique de la langue latine: histoire des mots (in French), 4th edition, with additions and corrections of Jacques André, Paris: Klincksieck, published 2001, page 64
- “baiulus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “baiulus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 68