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Latin
Etymology
Uncertain; proposed derivations include:
- From mullus (“mullet”), but considered folk etymology
- From Proto-Indo-European *melh₂-. Cognates include Ancient Greek μέλας (mélas, “black”), Sanskrit मल (mala, “dirt, filth, dust”), Latvian melns, and Old Prussian melne. Driessen rejects the connection with adj. in **-no- meaning 'black' since Proto-Italic *melnos / *mlnos would not yield Lat. mullus but melnus / blanus, cf. blandus (“soft”)
- From Proto-Italic *molweyos, from *ml-uo (“dark, red, dirty”) IE cognates Latvian mul̃vas "reddish, yellowish," itself from *melh₂-.
Pronunciation
Adjective
mulleus (feminine mullea, neuter mulleum); first/second-declension adjective
- of a red color (said of shoes)
calcei mullei- red calceuses
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
Descendants
See also
Colors in Latin · colōrēs (layout · text)
| albus, candidus, subalbus, niveus, cēreus, marmoreus, eburneus, cānus, blancus (ML.)
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glaucus, rāvus, pullus, cinereus, cinerāceus, plumbeus, grīseus (ML. or NL.)
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niger, āter, piceus, furvus
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| ruber, rūbidus, rūfus, rubicundus, russus, rubrīcus, pūniceus, murrinus, mulleus; cocceus, coccīnus, badius
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rutilus, armeniacus, aurantius, aurantiacus; fuscus, suffuscus, colōrius, cervīnus, spādīx, castaneus, aquilus, fulvus, brunneus (ML.)
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flāvus, sufflāvus, flāvidus, fulvus, lūteus, gilvus, helvus, croceus, pallidus, blondinus (ML.)
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| galbus, galbinus, lūridus
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viridis
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prasinus
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| cȳaneus
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caeruleus, azurīnus (ML.), caesius, blāvus (LL.)
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glaucus; līvidus; venetus
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| violāceus, ianthinus, balaustīnus (NL.)
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ostrīnus, amethystīnus
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purpureus, ātropurpureus, roseus, rosāceus
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References
Further reading
- “mulleus calceus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- mulleus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “mulleus”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 394