glaucus

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English

two glaucuses Glaucus atlanticus (left) and Glaucus marginatus

Etymology

From Ancient Greek γλαυκός (glaukós, “blue-green, blue-grey”).

Pronunciation

Noun

glaucus (plural glaucuses)

  1. Any member of the genus Glaucus of nudibranchiate mollusks, found in the warmer latitudes, swimming in the open sea, strikingly colored with blue and silvery white.
  2. A desert lime (Citrus glauca), a thorny shrub species endemic to semi-arid regions of Australia.
    • 1833, Charles Sturt, Two Expeditions into the Interior of Southern Australia, Complete‎:
      This pass is extremely abrupt, and is covered with glaucus, the low scrub I have noticed as common to the sand-stone formation.

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Latin

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From Ancient Greek γλαυκός (glaukós, “blue-green, blue-grey”).

Adjective

glaucus (feminine glauca, neuter glaucum); first/second-declension adjective

  1. bright, sparkling, gleaming
  2. gray-green, grayish
Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

singular plural
masculine feminine neuter masculine feminine neuter
nominative glaucus glauca glaucum glaucī glaucae glauca
genitive glaucī glaucae glaucī glaucōrum glaucārum glaucōrum
dative glaucō glaucae glaucō glaucīs
accusative glaucum glaucam glaucum glaucōs glaucās glauca
ablative glaucō glaucā glaucō glaucīs
vocative glauce glauca glaucum glaucī glaucae glauca
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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

Descendants

Etymology 2

From Ancient Greek γλαῦκος (glaûkos, “an edible grey fish”).

Noun

glaucus m (genitive glaucī); second declension

  1. (Medieval Latin) a bluish-grey colored fish of uncertain identity, perhaps the derbio
Declension

Second-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative glaucus glaucī
genitive glaucī glaucōrum
dative glaucō glaucīs
accusative glaucum glaucōs
ablative glaucō glaucīs
vocative glauce glaucī

References

  • “glaucus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “glaucus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • "glaucus", 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)
  • “glaucus”, in The Perseus Project (1999) Perseus Encyclopedia‎
  • “glaucus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • “glaucus”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray
  • “glaucus”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
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