baiulus

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Latin

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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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

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Noun

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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

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Second-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative baiulus baiulī
Genitive baiulī baiulōrum
Dative baiulō baiulīs
Accusative baiulum baiulōs
Ablative baiulō baiulīs
Vocative baiule baiulī

Derived terms

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Descendants

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References

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