βαλανεῖον

• βᾰλᾰνῖον (bălănîon), βᾰλᾰνῆον (bălănêon)

Attempts have been made to connect with βάλανος (bálanos, “acorn”), but are semantically unconvincing. According to Beekes, considering the semantic category and lack of convincing Indo-European cognates, it is Pre-Greek,^[1] while Furnée compares Old Georgian აბანოჲ (abanoy, “bathroom”).^[2]

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

1. bath, bathing room

   Synonym: λουτρόν (loutrón)

2. bathhouse

• “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 (2006–2025)