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English
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Etymology
[edit]From Ancient Greek γλαυκός (glaukós, “blue-green, blue-grey”).
Noun
[edit]glaucus (plural glaucuses)
- 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.
- Citrus glauca, the desert lime, a thorny shrub species endemic to semi-arid regions of Australia.
- 1833, Charles Sturt, Two Expeditions into the Interior of Southern Australia, Complete[1]:
- This pass is extremely abrupt, and is covered with glaucus, the low scrub I have noticed as common to the sand-stone formation.
Synonyms
[edit]- (nudibranchiate mollusk): sea swallow, blue angel, blue glaucus, blue dragon, blue sea slug, blue ocean slug
References
[edit]Glaucus on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Glaucus on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
Glaucus on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
Citrus glauca on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Citrus on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
Citrus glauca on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
Latin
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈɡlau̯.kus/, [ˈɡɫ̪äu̯kʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈɡlau̯.kus/, [ˈɡläːu̯kus]
Etymology 1
[edit]From Ancient Greek γλαυκός (glaukós, “blue-green, blue-grey”).
Adjective
[edit]glaucus (feminine glauca, neuter glaucum); first/second-declension adjective
Declension
[edit]First/second-declension adjective.
Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
Nominative | glaucus | glauca | glaucum | glaucī | glaucae | glauca | |
Genitive | glaucī | glaucae | glaucī | glaucōrum | glaucārum | glaucōrum | |
Dative | glaucō | glaucō | glaucīs | ||||
Accusative | glaucum | glaucam | glaucum | glaucōs | glaucās | glauca | |
Ablative | glaucō | glaucā | glaucō | glaucīs | |||
Vocative | glauce | glauca | glaucum | glaucī | glaucae | glauca |
Derived terms
[edit]See also
[edit]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 |
Related terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- Catalan: glauc
- → English: glaucous
- French: glauque
- → Romanian: glauc
- Italian: glauco
- Portuguese: glauco
- Romanian: glauc
- Spanish: glauco
- Translingual: See glauc at the Catalogue of Life
Etymology 2
[edit]From Ancient Greek γλαῦκος (glaûkos, “an edible grey fish”).
Noun
[edit]glaucus m (genitive glaucī); second declension
- (Medieval Latin) a bluish-grey colored fish of uncertain identity, perhaps the derbio
Declension
[edit]Second-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | glaucus | glaucī |
Genitive | glaucī | glaucōrum |
Dative | glaucō | glaucīs |
Accusative | glaucum | glaucōs |
Ablative | glaucō | glaucīs |
Vocative | glauce | glaucī |
References
[edit]- “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[2]
- “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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