balbus

From Proto-Indo-European *balb-, *balbal- (“tongue-tied”). Cognate with Ancient Greek βαμβαίνω (bambaínō), βαμβαλύζω (bambalúzō, “I chatter with the teeth”), Russian болтать (boltatʹ, “to chatter, babble”), Lithuanian balbė́ti (“to talk, babble”), Sanskrit बल्बला (balbalā, “stammering”), Albanian belbët (“stammering”). See also bālō, blatiō, blaterō.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈbal.bus/, [ˈbäɫ̪bʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈbal.bus/, [ˈbälbus]

balbus (feminine balba, neuter balbum); first/second-declension adjective

1. stammering, stuttering
2. lisping
3. fumbling

First/second-declension adjective.

• balbucinor
• balbūtiēs
• balbūtiō

• “balbus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “balbus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• balbus 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)
• balbus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “balbus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “balbus”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray