balneum

Etymology
From, apparently borrowed early enough for unstressed reduction of the second /a/ to /ĭ/ and then syncope.

Noun

 * 1) bath, bathing place, bathroom
 * , Another Letter from Young M. Aurelius to Fronto, quoted in 1879 by Cruttwell and Banton (editors) in Specimens of Roman Literature: Passages Illustrative of Roman Thought and Style, section 188, page 599:
 * "la"

- discus crepuit, id est pater meus in balneum transisse nuntiatus est.

Declension
The inflection of this noun was irregular. Usually, the plural became feminine and first declension with the specific meaning of a public place for bathing (e.g. public baths):

Since the Augustan period the following regular declension was sometimes used:

Occasionally, the back-form was used as a singular.

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