ballivus

• baillīvus

Borrowed from Old French bailif (“bailiff”), from Vulgar Latin *baiulīvus (“castellan”), from Latin baiulus (“carrier; carrier-on, manager”). Cognate of Latin ballium.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [balˈliː.wʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [balˈliː.vus]

ballīvus m (genitive ballīvī); second declension (Medieval Latin)

1. a bailiff (in its medieval senses)

Second-declension noun.

• → Middle Dutch: baliu, baeliu, bailiu, bailliu, baelyou, baeljuw, balgu, beliou
  • Dutch: baljuw
  • → Middle Low German: baliu, baliuw

• "ballivus", 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)