baiulus

== Latin == === Alternative forms === bajulus === 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”). === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈbaj.jʊ.ɫʊs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈbaː.ju.lus] === Noun === baiulus m (genitive baiulī); second declension a carrier: a porter one who carries an activity out or on, particularly: a manager: a steward or (Medieval Latin) bailiff an administrator ==== Declension ==== Second-declension noun. ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Descendants ==== Aragonese: baile → Spanish: baile Italian: baggiolo, baglio; → baiulo Old Occitan: baile Catalan: batlle, batle Occitan: baile → Venetan: 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) (traditional orthography)→ Northern Kurdish: balyoz→ Turkish: balyoz (learned) Romanian: baieră ⇒ Vulgar Latin: *baiula French: baille→ Middle Low German: ballie→ Danish: balje→ Icelandic: bali→ Norwegian: balje→ Swedish: balja→ Polish: balia→ Yiddish: באַליע (balye) === References === === Further reading === 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