baiulus

Latin

Alternative forms

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”).[1]

Pronunciation

Noun

baiulus m (genitive baiulī); second declension

  1. a carrier: a porter
  2. one who carries an activity out or on, particularly:
    1. a manager: a steward or (Medieval Latin) bailiff
    2. an administrator

Declension

Second-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative baiulus baiulī
genitive baiulī baiulōrum
dative baiulō baiulīs
accusative baiulum baiulōs
ablative baiulō baiulīs
vocative baiule baiulī

Derived terms

Descendants

References

  1. ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008), “bāiulus”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 68

Further reading

  • Ernout, Alfred; Meillet, Antoine (1985), “baiulus”, in Dictionnaire étymologique de la langue latine: histoire des mots‎[1] (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
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