The corpus record — Latin

balaena

balaena · f

a whale

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Where it lives

Institutio Oratoria 1 · 0.06/10k
Naturalis Historia 1 · 0.03/10k

What it meant

bālaena — Lewis & Short

bālaena (bālēna), ae, f., = fa/laina, Engl. whale (cf.

Fest. p. 25, and the letter B.),

I a whale, Plaut. Rud. 2, 6, 61; Plin. 9, 8, 7, § 21; 9, 13, 15, § 41; 11, 40, 95, § 235; Ov. M. 2, 9; Juv. 10, 14; Aus. Mos. 144.

In the wild

balaena Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 1.32.p89
balaena Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria 1.4.15

Where it came from

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

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