balbus

== Latin == === Etymology === From Proto-Indo-European *balb-, *balbal- (“tongue-tied”), of onomatopoeic origin. Cognate with Ancient Greek βαμβαίνω (bambaínō), βαμβαλύζω (bambalúzō, “I chatter with the teeth”), Russian болтать (boltatʹ, “to chatter, babble”), Lithuanian balbė́ti (“to talk, babble”), Sanskrit बल्बला (balbalā, “stammering”), Albanian belbët (“stammering”). See also bālō, blatiō, blaterō. === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈbaɫ.bʊs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈbal.bus] === Adjective === balbus (feminine balba, neuter balbum); first/second-declension adjective stammering, stuttering lisping fumbling ==== Declension ==== First/second-declension adjective. ==== Derived terms ==== balbucinor balbūtiēs balbūtiō ==== Descendants ==== === References === === Further reading === “balbus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “balbus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers "balbus", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887) “balbus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette. “balbus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers “balbus”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray