balteus

== English == === Etymology === Borrowed from Latin balteus (“belt, girdle”). === Noun === balteus (plural baltei) (biblical) The girdle of a biblical Jewish priest. (Ancient Rome) A swordbelt worn by Roman legionaries. (architecture) An Ionic ornamental band encircling the pulvinus, or bolster of the capital. (Roman Catholicism) The subcinctorium, a papal garment. === Anagrams === ablutes, tabsule, sublate, abustle == Latin == === Alternative forms === balteum === Etymology === Charisius says Varro considered it of Etruscan origin (compare Etruscan 𐌁𐌀𐌋𐌕𐌄𐌀 (baltea, “belt”)). Ernout and Meillet accept its Etruscan origin and interpret -eus as a characteristic ending of Etruscan loanwords, whereas Bonfante Warren is skeptical of this etymology, noting that the voiced consonant /b/ is foreign to Etruscan. === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈbaɫ.te.ʊs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈbal.te.us] === Noun === balteus m (genitive balteī); second declension A belt, girdle A sub-cinctorium, a papal garment. (architecture) synonym of praecinctio (curved walkway that separates the galleries of a Roman theatre) ==== Usage notes ==== In the Old Testament, Exodus 39:29: A Jewish priest wore a balteus girdle: 3 or 4 fingers in breadth and (according to Rabbinic tradition) 32 ells long; it had to be embroidered after the same pattern and to be of the same colour as the curtain of the forecourt and the tabernacle of the covenant. A balteus (sword belt) was worn by the Roman legionary. ==== Declension ==== Second-declension noun. ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Descendants ==== === References === === Further reading === “balteus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “balteus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers "balteus", 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) “balteus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette. “balteus”, in The Perseus Project (1999), Perseus Encyclopedia‎[1] “balteus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers “balteus”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002), “balteus”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volume 1: A–B, page 226