masc. proper name, from French, from Latin, from Greek Baltasar, from Hebrew Belteshatztzar, Biblical king of Babylon (who "saw the writing on the wall"), from Babylonian Balat-shar-usur, literally "save the life of the king." As a type of very large wine bottle by 1935, in allusion to Daniel v.1.
baloney
balsa
balsam
balsamic
Balt
Balthazar
Baltic
Baltimore
Balto-
Baluchistan
baluchitherium
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