baiulus

Latin

Alternative forms

bajulus

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

(Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈbai̯.i̯u.lus/, [ˈbäi̯ːʊɫ̪ʊs̠]
(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈba.ju.lus/, [ˈbäːjulus]

Noun

baiulus m (genitive baiulī); second declension

a carrier: a porter
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

Aragonese: baile
- → Spanish: baile
Italian: baglio; → baiulo
Old Occitan: baile
- Catalan: batlle, batle
- Occitan: baile
- → Venetan: bailo
  - → English: bailo, baylo, Bailo, Baylo
  - → French: baile (from 17th century)
  - → German: Bailo
  - → Byzantine Greek: βαΐλος (baḯlos)
    - Greek: βάιλος (váilos)
  - → Italian: bailo
  - → Russian: байло (bajlo)
  - → Old Anatolian Turkish:
    - Ottoman Turkish: بالیوس (balyos), بالیوز (balyoz)
      - → Arabic: باليوس (balyōs), باليوز (balyōz)
        → Swahili: balozi (“ambassador”)
      - → Albanian: bajloz, baloz
      - → Armenian: պալիոզ (palioz), պալիոս (palios), պալեոզ (paleoz), պալյոզ (palyoz), պալիօզ (paliōz), պալիօս (paliōs), պալյօզ (palyōz) — traditional orthography
      - → Northern Kurdish: balyoz
      - → Turkish: balyoz (learned)
Romanian: baieră
⇒ Vulgar Latin: *baiula
- French: baille
  - → Middle Low German: ballie
    - → Danish: balje
      - → Icelandic: bali
    - → Norwegian: balje
    - → Swedish: balja
  - → Polish: balia
    - → Yiddish: באַליע (balye)

References

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

^ 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

[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

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