balustre

See also: balustré

English

Noun

balustre (plural balustres)

1. Alternative form of baluster.

Anagrams

• Albertus, Breaults, baluster, bluestar, rustable

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian balaustro.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [bəˈlus.tɾə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [baˈlus.tɾe]

Noun

balustre m (plural balustres)

1. (architecture) baluster

Derived terms

• balustrada

Further reading

• “balustre”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “balustre”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2026
• “balustre” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• Alcover, Antoni Maria; Moll, Francesc de Borja (1963), “balustre”, in Diccionari català-valencià-balear (in Catalan)

French

Etymology

Inherited from Middle French, from Italian balaustro, from Latin balaustĭum. See English baluster for more.

Pronunciation

• Audio (France (Lyon)):

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• Homophones: balustrent, balustres

Noun

balustre m (plural balustres)

1. baluster [from 16th c.]
2. balustrade [from 17th c.]

Descendants

• → Catalan: balustre
• → German: Baluster
• → Serbo-Croatian: (or directly from Italian)
  • Cyrillic script: ба̀лустар
  • Latin script: bàlustar
  • → Macedonian: балустер (baluster)

Verb

balustre

1. inflection of balustrer:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

Further reading

• “balustre”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

Middle French

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian balaustro.

Noun

balustre m (plural balustres)

1. baluster

Descendants

• French: balustre
  • → Catalan: balustre
  • → German: Baluster
  • → Serbo-Croatian: (or directly from Italian)
    • Cyrillic script: ба̀лустар
    • Latin script: bàlustar
    • → Macedonian: балустер (baluster)
• → English: baluster; banister, bannister

Norman

Etymology

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Noun

balustre m (plural balustres)

1. (Jersey) banister