Rarely baile. [It. bailo (also balio = Pg. bailio, Sp. bayle, baile, Pr., F. baile, OF. bail):—L. bājulus, orig. ‘carrier, bearer of burdens,’ subseq. ‘tutor, governor, administrator, magistrate, bailiff’; in med.L. also bailus, balius. See BAILsb.1 and BAILIFF.] The title of the Venetian ‘Resident’ at the Ottoman Porte.
1682. Wheler, Journ. Greece, I. 1. A Bailo, or Ambassador from the State of Venice, was to part for Constantinople.
1705. Lond. Gaz., No. 4139/4. Their Bailo or Resident at the Ottoman Porte.
1832. trans. Sismondi’s Ital. Rep., xi. 254. A baile, who was to be … its ambassador there, and the judge of all the Venetian subjects in the Levant.
