ballux

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Latin

Alternative forms

Etymology

Borrowed from a pre-Roman substrate of Iberia, cognate with Galician baluga. Doublet of ballūca.

Pronunciation

Noun

ballūx f (genitive ballūcis); third declension

  1. gold sand, gold dust

Inflection

Third-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative ballūx ballūcēs
genitive ballūcis ballūcum
dative ballūcī ballūcibus
accusative ballūcem ballūcēs
ablative ballūce ballūcibus
vocative ballūx ballūcēs

References

  • “ballux”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • ballux in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • “ballux” in volume 2, column 1703, line 10 in the Thesaurus Linguae Latinae (TLL Open Access), Berlin (formerly Leipzig): De Gruyter (formerly Teubner), 1900–present
  • John F. Healy (1999) Pliny the Elder on Science and Technology‎, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, retrieved 27 August 2018, pages 91–92
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