βαλανεῖον

• βᾰλᾰνῖον (bălănîon), βᾰλᾰνῆον (bălănêon)

According to Beekes all the various attempts to link this word with βάλανος (bálanos, “acorn”) are semantically unconvincing. The same author considers that, given the semantic category and lack of convincing Indo-European cognates, the word must be of Pre-Greek origin.^[1] Furnée compares the noun with Old Georgian აბანოჲ (abanoy, “bathroom”).^[2]

βᾰλᾰνεῖον • (bălăneîon) n (genitive βᾰλᾰνείου); second declension

1. bath, an area or room where bathing takes place

   Synonym: λουτρόν (loutrón)

2. bathhouse, thermae, baths, especially Roman-style

   Synonym: λουτρών (loutrṓn)

• “βαλανεῖον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940), A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “βαλανεῖον”, in Liddell & Scott (1889), An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• βαλανεῖον in Bailly, Anatole (1935), Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• βαλανεῖον in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2026)