ballium

English

Etymology

Medieval Latin ballium

Noun

ballium (plural balliums or ballia)

1. Synonym of bailey (“fortification”)
   • 1855, Charles Kingsley, “The True and Tragical History of Mr. John Oxenham of Plymouth”, in Westward Ho!: Or, The Voyages and Adventures of Sir Amyas Leigh, Knight, […], volume I, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Macmillan & Co., →OCLC, page 209:

     [T]he southern court of the ballium had become a flower-garden, with quaint terraces, statues, knots of flowers, clipped yews and hollies, and all the pedantries of the topiarian art.

Latin

Alternative forms

• balium, baillium

Pronunciation

• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈbal.li.um/, [ˈbälːium]

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)

1. custody (of land or a person)
2. (law) bail
3. guardianship (of a child), tutelage; regency

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	ballium	ballia
Genitive	balliī	balliōrum
Dative	balliō	balliīs
Accusative	ballium	ballia
Ablative	balliō	balliīs
Vocative	ballium	ballia

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)

1. bailey (of a castle)

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	ballium	ballia
Genitive	balliī	balliōrum
Dative	balliō	balliīs
Accusative	ballium	ballia
Ablative	balliō	balliīs
Vocative	ballium	ballia

References

• ballium in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s 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