βάλανος

From Proto-Hellenic *gʷə́lanos, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *gʷelh₂- (“acorn”); see there for cognates. Probably unrelated to Ancient Greek βᾰλᾰνεῖον (bălăneîon, “bath, bathroom”). Per Schwyzer and Curtius, mentioned by Vasmer, akin to βάλλω (bállō).

βᾰ́λᾰνος • (bắlănos) f (genitive βᾰλᾰ́νου); second declension

1. acorn
2. the tree that bears acorns, the oak
3. (by resemblance)
   1. barnacle
   2. glans penis
   3. iron peg, bolt-pin, bolt of a door

      Synonym: μᾰ́νδᾰλος (mắndălos)

   4. (medicine) suppository, pledget, pessary

• (oak tree): Ᾰ̔μᾱδρῠᾰ́ς (Hămādrŭắs)

• Greek: βάλανος (válanos), βαλανίδι (valanídi), βελανίδι (velanídi)
• → Latin: balanus, balana, balania (late)
  • Catalan: bàlan
  • French: balane
  • Italian: balano
  • Portuguese: bálano
  • Spanish: bálano
  • → English: balanus
  • → French: balanus (learned)
  • → Translingual: Balanus

• “βάλανος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “βάλανος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “βάλανος”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• βάλανος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• βάλανος in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• βάλανος in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2025)
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • acorn idem, page 8.
  • bolt idem, page 88.
  • catch idem, page 118.
  • clasp idem, page 135.
  • date idem, page 196.
  • fastening idem, page 308.
  • pin idem, page 613.
• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “желудь”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress

From Ancient Greek βάλανος (bálanos).

• IPA^(key): /ˈvalanos/
• Hyphenation: βά‧λα‧νος

βάλανος • (válanos) f (plural βάλανοι)

1. (medicine) glans penis (conical forming the head of the penis)

   Πήγα στο γιατρό επειδή έκαιγε η βάλανός μου. ― Píga sto giatró epeidí ékaige i válanós mou. ― I went to the doctor because my glans was burning.

• βελανίδι (velanídi)

• πέος n (péos, “penis”)
• ακροποσθία f (akroposthía, “foreskin”)
• ακροβυστία f (akrovystía, “foreskin”)

• βάλανος, in Λεξικό της κοινής νεοελληνικής [Dictionary of Standard Modern Greek], Triantafyllidis Foundation, 1998 at the Centre for the Greek language