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caeruleus
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Latin
Alternative forms
Etymology
Dissimilation of *caeluleus, derived from caelum (“sky, heaven”) + -uleus (diminutive suffix).
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [kae̯ˈrʊ.ɫe.ʊs]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [t͡ʃeˈruː.le.us]
Adjective
caeruleus (feminine caerulea, neuter caeruleum); first/second-declension adjective
- Having the color of the sky; blue or greenish-blue; cerulean, azure
- Dyed or colored blue
- Used as an epithet of sea and river deities or things connected with them
- (of serpents) Glossy greenish-blue
- (of persons) Blue-eyed
- Dark-colored, dusky, gloomy
- (of clouds and shadows)
- (of things in or associated with the underworld)
- (as a proper name) A spring and aqueduct at Rome
- (rare) Of or connected with the sky, celestial
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
Derived terms
Descendants
See also
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
- “caeruleus” on page 278 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (2nd ed., 2012)
Further reading
- “caeruleus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “caeruleus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “caeruleus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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