badius
Latin
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *badyo- (“yellow, brown”). Cognate to Old Irish buide (“yellow”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈba.di.us/, [ˈbäd̪iʊs̠]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈba.di.us/, [ˈbäːd̪ius]
Adjective
badius (feminine badia, neuter badium); first/second-declension adjective
- (usually of horses) reddish brown, chestnut colored, bay
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
| Nominative | badius | badia | badium | badiī | badiae | badia | |
| Genitive | badiī | badiae | badiī | badiōrum | badiārum | badiōrum | |
| Dative | badiō | badiō | badiīs | ||||
| Accusative | badium | badiam | badium | badiōs | badiās | badia | |
| Ablative | badiō | badiā | badiō | badiīs | |||
| Vocative | badie | badia | badium | badiī | badiae | badia | |
Descendants
- Catalan: bai
- Old French: bai
- → English: bay
- French: bai
- → Italian: baio
- Galician: baio
- Occitan: bai
- Portuguese: baio, baço
- Spanish: bayo, bazo
References
- “badius”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- badius 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)
- badius in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
- “badius”, in William Smith, editor (1848) A Dictionary of Greek Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray