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(Can we date this quote?), Another Letter from Young M. Aurelius to Fronto, quoted in 1879 by Cruttwell and Banton (editors) in Specimens of Roman Literature: Passages Illustrative of Roman Thought and Style, section 188, page 599:
[…] discus crepuit, id est pater meus in balneum transisse nuntiatus est.
The gong rang, it is announced that my father is going to the bath.
Declension
The inflection of this noun was irregular. Usually, the plural became feminine and first declension with the specific meaning of a public place for bathing (e.g. public baths):
→ Proto-Slavic: *baňa (see there for further descendants)
References
“balneum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“balneum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
balneum 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)
balneum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
“balneum”, in Samuel Ball Platner (1929) Thomas Ashby, editor, A Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome, London: Oxford University Press