Balcĭa — Lewis & Short
Balcĭa (Baltĭa), ae, f., acc. to Xenophon of Lampsacus,
I a large island, three days' sail from the coast of Scythia, called by Pythias Basilia, Plin. 4, 13, 27, § 95.
The corpus record — Latin
Balcia
Balcia · f
a large island
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Where it lives
- Naturalis Historia 1 · 0.03/10k
What it meant
In the wild
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.