bail
English
/beɪ̯l/
noun
Definitions
- Security, usually a sum of money, exchanged for the release of an arrested person as a guarantee of that person's appearance for trial.
- (legal) Release from imprisonment on payment of such money.
- (legal) The person providing such payment.
- A bucket or scoop used for removing water from a boat etc.
- A person who bails water out of a boat.
- (obsolete) Custody; keeping.
Etymology
Derived from Latin bāiulāre.
Origin
Latin
bāiulāre
Gloss
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- antibailout English
- bail in English
- bailable English
- bailee English
- bailer English
- bailjumping English
- bailment English
- bailor English
- bailout English
- bailpiece English
- bailsman English
- in English
- jumping English
- nonbailable English
- out English
- piece English
- postbailout English
- rebail English
- unbailable English
- bāiulāre Latin
- baillier Old French
- beila Icelandic
- balhar Occitan