Balbus

== Latin == === Etymology === From balbus (“stammering”). === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈbaɫ.bʊs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈbal.bus] === Proper noun === Balbus m sg (genitive Balbī); second declension A Roman cognomen — famously held by: Lucius Cornelius Balbus, a Roman consul ==== Declension ==== Second-declension noun, singular only. === References === “Balbus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “Balbus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.