balaustium

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Latin

Etymology

Via Ancient Greek βαλαύστιον (balaústion) from Semitic, related to Imperial Aramaic 𐡁𐡀𐡋𐡀𐡈 (bʾlʾṭ, pomegranate shoot), Classical Syriac ܒܠܳܨܳܐ (blāṣā, bud, shoot).

Noun

balaustium n (genitive balaustiī or balaustī); second declension

  1. the flower of the wild pomegranate

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

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

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.
  • Löw, Immanuel (1881) Aramæische Pflanzennamen (in German), Leipzig: Wilhelm Engelmann, →DOI, page 364
  • Löw, Immanuel (1924) Die Flora der Juden (in German), volume 3, Wien und Leipzig: R. Löwit, pages 92-93
  • Sokoloff, Michael (2009) A Syriac Lexicon: A Translation from the Latin, Correction, Expansion, and Update of C. Brockelmann's Lexicon Syriacum, Winona Lake, Indiana, Piscataway, New Jersey: Eisenbrauns; Gorgias Press, →ISBN, page 160
  • blṣ”, in The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon Project, Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College, 1986–