balaustium

Via Ancient Greek βαλαύστιον (balaústion) from Semitic, related to Imperial Aramaic 𐡁𐡀𐡋𐡀𐡈 (bʾlʾṭ, “pomegranate shoot”), Classical Syriac ܒܠܳܨܳܐ (blāṣā, “bud, shoot”).

balaustium n (genitive balaustiī or balaustī); second declension

1. the flower of the wild pomegranate

Second-declension noun (neuter).

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

• Italian: balaustro, balaustre
  • → Middle French: balustre
    • French: balustre
      • → Catalan: balustre
      • → German: Baluster
      • → Serbo-Croatian: (or directly from Italian)
        • Cyrillic script: ба̀лустар
        • Latin script: bàlustar
        • → Macedonian: балустер (baluster)
    • → English: baluster; banister, bannister
  • ⇒ Italian: balaustrata
    • → French: balustrade
      • → Belarusian: балюстра́да (baljustráda)
      • → Bulgarian: балюстра́да (baljustráda)
      • → Czech: balustráda
      • → German: Balustrade
      • → English: balustrade
      • → Macedonian: балустрада (balustrada)
      • → Polish: balustrada
      • → Russian: балюстра́да (baljustráda)
        • → Georgian: ბალუსტრადა (balusṭrada)
      • → Serbo-Croatian:
        • Cyrillic script: балустра́да
        • Latin script: balustráda
      • → Slovak: balustráda
      • → Slovene: balustráda

• “balaustium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• "balaustium", 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)
• balaustium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Löw, Immanuel (1881) Aramæische Pflanzennamen‎^[1] (in German), Leipzig: Wilhelm Engelmann, →DOI, page 364
• Löw, Immanuel (1924) Die Flora der Juden‎^[2] (in German), volume 3, Wien und Leipzig: R. Löwit, pages 92-93
• Sokoloff, Michael (2009) A Syriac Lexicon: A Translation from the Latin, Correction, Expansion, and Update of C. Brockelmann's Lexicon Syriacum, Winona Lake, Indiana, Piscataway, New Jersey: Eisenbrauns; Gorgias Press, →ISBN, page 160
• “blṣ”, in The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon Project, Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College, 1986–