balineum

== Latin == === Etymology === From earlier *balaneum, a borrowing from Ancient Greek βαλανεῖον (balaneîon), which displays vowel reduction of a to i. === Pronunciation === (Plautine) IPA(key): [ˈba.lɪ.ne.ũː] (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [baˈlɪ.ne.ũː] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [baˈliː.ne.um] === Noun === balineum n (genitive balineī); second declension Plautine and later archaic form of balneum ==== Declension ==== Second-declension noun (neuter). === References === “balineum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press "balineum", 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) “balineum”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.