balatro

Unknown; the basic meaning is also unclear. It possibly has denoted a particular profession of the performing arts.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈba.ɫa.troː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈbaː.la.t̪ro]

balatrō m (genitive balatrōnis); third declension

1. clown, jester, buffoon
2. babbler

Third-declension noun.

• → English: balatron
• Spanish: baladrón
• ⇒ Vulgar Latin: *balatrare
  • Old Catalan: baladrar
    • ⇒ Catalan: baladrejar
  • Old Galician-Portuguese: braadar
    • Galician: bradar
    • Portuguese: bradar
  • Spanish: baladrar

• Ernout, Alfred, Meillet, Antoine (1985) “balatro”, in Dictionnaire étymologique de la langue latine: histoire des mots (in French), 4th edition, with additions and corrections of Jacques André, Paris: Klincksieck, published 2001, page 64
• “balatro”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “balatro”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “balatro”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “balatro”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin