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Latin
Etymology
From rosa + -eus.
Pronunciation
Adjective
roseus (feminine rosea, neuter roseum); first/second-declension adjective
- pink, rose-colored, rosy
29 BCE – 19 BCE,
Virgil,
Aeneid 2.593:
- “ roseōque haec īnsuper addidit ōre: .”
- “ and furthermore, she added these words from rose-red lip: .”
- rose-, of or pertaining to roses
Roseae convalles.- A valley filled with roses.
- (transferred meaning, especially of parts of the body) any thing blooming with youth; rosy, ruddy, blooming
- Catullus 80
- Quid dicam, Gelli, quare rosea ista labella
- hiberna fiant candidiora nive,
- mane domo cum exis et cum te octava quiete
- e molli longo suscitat hora die?
- Nescio quid certest: an vere fama susurrat
- grandia te medii tenta vorare viri?
- Sic certest: clamant Victoris rupta miselli
- ilia, et emulso labra notata sero.
- What do you say, O Gellius, to why those rosy lips of yours
- become white as winter snow,
- in the morning when you go out of your house and when the eighth hour wakes you
- out of a nap from a long day?
- I do not know what is certain: can the rumor be true
- that you swallow the large thing men have in the middle?
- It must be so: They proclaim that poor Victor's member has burst,
- and the milky fluid is inscribed on your lips.
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
Synonyms
Derived terms
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
- “roseus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “roseus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- roseus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.