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balaena

balaena

Latin

Alternative forms

bālēna

Noun

bālaena f ‎(genitive bālaenae); first declension

a whale

Inflection

First declension.

Case	Singular	Plural
nominative	bālaena	bālaenae
genitive	bālaenae	bālaenārum
dative	bālaenae	bālaenīs
accusative	bālaenam	bālaenās
ablative	bālaenā	bālaenīs
vocative	bālaena	bālaenae

Related terms

bālaenācius

Descendants

Asturian: ballena, baḷḷena
Basque: balea
Catalan: balena
Corsican: balena
Emilian: baläṅna
English: baleen
French: baleine
Friulian: balene
Galician: balea
Guinea-Bissau Creole: baleia
Hungarian: bálna
Italian: balena
Karipúna Creole French: balén
Ladin: balena
Middle French: baleine

Mozarabic: [script needed] ‎(balléna), [script needed] ‎(ballína)
Occitan: balena
Old Portuguese: balẽa
Piedmontese: balena
Portuguese: baleia
Romanian: balenă
Romansch: balena
Sardinian: balèna
Spanish: ballena
Venetian: bałéna
Walloon: ballaînn

References

balaena in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
balaena in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
Félix Gaffiot (1934), “balaena”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.