balanus

• balana, balania (late)

From Ancient Greek βάλανος (bálanos).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈba.la.nus/, [ˈbäɫ̪änʊs̠]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈba.la.nus/, [ˈbäːlänus]

balanus f (genitive balanī); second declension

1. an acorn
2. a fruit or other object similar in form to an acorn:
   1. a chestnut
   2. the ben-nut (Moringa)
   3. a date
   4. a suppository
   5. a species of shellfish

Second-declension noun.

• Translingual: Balanus
• English: balanoculture

“balanus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press

• “balanus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• balanus 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)
• balanus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
• “balanus”, in William Smith, editor (1848) A Dictionary of Greek Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray