balascus

Latin

Alternative forms
  • balagius, balantius, balascius, balasius, balescus, palachius, palatius

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic بَلَخْش (balaḵš); see balas for more.

Noun

balascus m (genitive balascī); second declension

  1. (Medieval Latin) balas-ruby
    • 1295, Inventaire du trésor du Saint Siège sous Boniface VIII; republished as Bibliothèque de l’École des chartes. Revue d’érudition, volume 43, 1882, page 640:
      In cruce superiori est unus zaffirus, duo balasci et duo smaraldi.
      One sapphire, two balas-rubies, and two emeralds are in the cross above.

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative balascus balascī
Genitive balascī balascōrum
Dative balascō balascīs
Accusative balascum balascōs
Ablative balascō balascīs
Vocative balasce balascī

References
  • balascus 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)
  • balascius in Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften (1967– ) Mittellateinisches Wörterbuch, Munich: C.H. Beck
  • Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976) “balascus”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: E. J. Brill, page 78
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