ballux
Latin
Alternative forms
Etymology
Borrowed from a pre-Roman substrate of Iberia, cognate with Galician baluga. Doublet of ballūca.
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈbal.luːks/, [ˈbälːʲuːks̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈbal.luks/, [ˈbälːuks]
Noun
ballūx f (genitive ballūcis); third declension
Inflection
Third-declension noun.
| Case | 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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