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bailo

bailo noun: title of the Venetian envoy to particularly the Sublime Porte.

Noun

bailo (plural baili)

  1. (historical) title of the Venetian envoy to particularly the Sublime Porte
    • Venice engaged to restore to the triarchs all property which the baili had conferred in fief since 1255.1886, The Journal of Hellenic Studies, volume 7, page 328
    • In 1670 the bailo was considered responsible for all the Venetian consuls in the Ottoman Empire.2010, Gábor Ágoston, Encyclopedia of the Ottoman Empire, page 73

Forms of bailo

pluralbaili
alternative formbaylo
alternative formBailo
alternative formBaylo

Origin of bailo

From Venetan bailo. Doublet of bailiff.

Questions about bailo

What does bailo mean?
Bailo means title of the Venetian envoy to particularly the Sublime Porte.
What part of speech is bailo?
Bailo is a noun.
What is the plural of bailo?
The plural of bailo is baili.

Words near bailo in the dictionary

  1. Baillon's crakes
  2. Bailly
  3. Baillys
  4. bailment
  5. bailments
  6. bailo
  7. Bailon
  8. Bailongwei
  9. Bailons
  10. bailor
  11. bailors

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