ballium

== English == === Etymology === From Medieval Latin ballium. === Noun === ballium (plural balliums or ballia) Synonym of bailey (“fortification”). == Latin == === Alternative forms === balium, baillium === Pronunciation === (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈbal.li.um] === Etymology 1 === From baiulus (“porter, carrier, administrator”); compare Italian balia (“wet nurse”), Old French baillier. Cognate of Latin ballivus. ==== Noun ==== ballium n (genitive balliī); second declension (Medieval Latin) custody (of land or a person) (law) bail guardianship (of a child), tutelage; regency ===== Declension ===== Second-declension noun (neuter). ===== Related terms ===== balliō ballīvia ballīvus === Etymology 2 === Borrowed from Old French baile (“palisade”), itself from Latin baculum (“stick, rod”). ==== Noun ==== ballium n (genitive balliī); second declension (Medieval Latin) bailey (of a castle) ===== Declension ===== Second-declension noun (neuter). === References === "ballium", 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) balium in Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften (1967– ), Mittellateinisches Wörterbuch, Munich: C.H. Beck R. E. Latham, D. R. Howlett, & R. K. Ashdowne, editors (1975–2013), “baillium”, in Dictionary of Medieval Latin from British Sources‎[1], London: Oxford University Press for the British Academy, →ISBN, →OCLC Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976), “baillium”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: E. J. Brill, page 77