baiulus

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”).[1]

Pronunciation

Noun

baiulus m (genitive baiulī); second declension

  1. a carrier: a porter
  2. one who carries an activity out or on, particularly:
    1. a manager: a steward or (Medieval Latin) bailiff
    2. an administrator

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative baiulus baiulī
Genitive baiulī baiulōrum
Dative baiulō baiulīs
Accusative baiulum baiulōs
Ablative baiulō baiulīs
Vocative baiule baiulī

Derived terms

Descendants
  • Aragonese: baile
  • Italian: baglio; → baiulo
  • Old Occitan: baile
    • Catalan: batlle, batle
    • Occitan: baile
    • → Venetian: bailo
      • → English: bailo, baylo, Bailo, Baylo
      • → French: baile (from 17th century)
      • → German: Bailo
      • → Byzantine Greek: βαΐλος (baḯlos)
        • Greek: βάιλος (váilos)
      • → Italian: bailo
      • → Russian: байло (bajlo)
      • → Old Anatolian Turkish:
        • Ottoman Turkish: بالیوس (balyos), بالیوز (balyoz)
          • → Arabic: باليوس (balyōs), باليوز (balyōz)
            • → Swahili: balozi (“ambassador”)
          • → Albanian: bajloz, baloz
          • → Armenian: պալիոզ (palioz), պալիոս (palios), պալեոզ (paleoz), պալյոզ (palyoz); պալիօզ (paliōz), պալիօս (paliōs), պալյօզ (palyōz)
          • → Northern Kurdish: balyoz
          • → Turkish: balyoz (learned)
  • Romanian: baieră
  • ⇒ Vulgar Latin: *baiula

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
  1. 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
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