The corpus record — Latin

bajulo

bajulo · v. a

to carry a burden

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Where it lives

De Baptismo 1 · 2.34/10k
Fabulae Aesopiae 1 · 0.91/10k

What it meant

bājŭlo — Lewis & Short

bājŭlo, āre, v. a.bajulus,

I to carry a burden, to bear something heavy, basta/cw (mostly ante-and post-class.): ferri proprie dicimus quae quis suo corpore bajulat, portari ea, quae quis in jumento secum ducit, agi ea, quae animalia sunt, Dig. 50, 16, 235; Non. p. 79, 9; Plaut. As. 3, 3, 70; id. Merc. 3, 1, 10: asinus bajulans sarcinas, Phaedr. 4, 1, 5; Auct. ap. Quint. 6, 1, 47; Vulg. Marc. 14, 13.—

II Trop.: adjectionem debiti alieni, Cod. Th. 5, 15, 3: crucem suam, Vulg. Luc. 14, 27.

In the wild

baiulantem Tertullian, De Baptismo 19
baiulantem Phaedrus, Fabulae Aesopiae 4.1.5

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.

Latin text and lemmatization derived from the Perseus Digital Library (canonical-latinLit), CC BY-SA 4.0. Lewis & Short (public domain) via Perseus. This derived data is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 license.