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Latin
Etymology
Uncertain, but perhaps from cera (“wax”) + -issa (“-esse”).[1]
Pronunciation
Noun
cērussa f (genitive cērussae); first declension
- white lead, ceruse (particularly as used by women to whiten their skin.)
Declension
First-declension noun.
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References
- “cerussa”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “cerussa”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- cerussa in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- cerussa in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “cerussa”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers