flavus

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Esperanto

Verb

flavus

  1. conditional of flavi

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *flāwos, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰl̥h₁wós, from *bʰleh₁- (“yellow, blue”) (which may be related to *bʰel- (“light, bright”, whence Russian бе́лый (bélyj), Sanskrit भर्ग (bharga), English blue) + *-wós (whence Latin -vus). Cognate with Proto-Celtic *blāwos (“yellow”) and Proto-Germanic *blēwaz (“blue”).[1]

Pronunciation

Adjective

flāvus (feminine flāva, neuter flāvum, comparative flāvior, superlative flāvissimus); first/second-declension adjective

  1. yellow, golden
  2. blond, flaxen

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

singular plural
masculine feminine neuter masculine feminine neuter
nominative flāvus flāva flāvum flāvī flāvae flāva
genitive flāvī flāvae flāvī flāvōrum flāvārum flāvōrum
dative flāvō flāvae flāvō flāvīs
accusative flāvum flāvam flāvum flāvōs flāvās flāva
ablative flāvō flāvā flāvō flāvīs
vocative flāve flāva flāvum flāvī flāvae flāva

Derived terms

Descendants

  • flāvulus (diminutive) ⇒ Neapolitan: (Irpino dialect) javolo (“pallid”)
  • >? French: flou (disputed; see etymology for discussion)
  • → Esperanto: flava
  • → Ido: flava
  • → Italian: flavo
  • → Portuguese: flavo
  • → Spanish: flavo

See also

Colors in Latin · colōrēs (layout · text)
     albus, candidus, subalbus, niveus, cēreus, marmoreus, eburneus, cānus, blancus (ML.)      glaucus, rāvus, pullus, cinereus, cinerāceus, plumbeus, grīseus (ML. or NL.)      niger, āter, piceus, furvus
             ruber, rūbidus, rūfus, rubicundus, russus, rubrīcus, pūniceus, murrinus, mulleus; cocceus, coccīnus, badius              rutilus, armeniacus, aurantius, aurantiacus; fuscus, suffuscus, colōrius, cervīnus, spādīx, castaneus, aquilus, fulvus, brunneus (ML.)              flāvus, sufflāvus, flāvidus, fulvus, lūteus, gilvus, helvus, croceus, pallidus, blondinus (ML.)
             galbus, galbinus, lūridus              viridis              prasinus
             cȳaneus              caeruleus, azurīnus (ML.), caesius, blāvus (LL.)              glaucus; līvidus; venetus
             violāceus, ianthinus, balaustīnus (NL.)              ostrīnus, amethystīnus              purpureus, ātropurpureus, roseus, rosāceus

References

  1. ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “flāvus”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 225

Further reading

  • “flavus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “flavus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • flavus 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)
  • flavus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • “flavus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • “flavus”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray
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