caeruleus
Latin edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
Dissimilation of *caeluleus, derived from caelum (“sky, heaven”) + -uleus (diminutive suffix).
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /kae̯ˈru.le.us/, [käe̯ˈrʊɫ̪eʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /t͡ʃeˈru.le.us/, [t͡ʃeˈruːleus]
Adjective edit
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 edit
First/second-declension adjective.
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
| Nominative | caeruleus | caerulea | caeruleum | caeruleī | caeruleae | caerulea | |
| Genitive | caeruleī | caeruleae | caeruleī | caeruleōrum | caeruleārum | caeruleōrum | |
| Dative | caeruleō | caeruleō | caeruleīs | ||||
| Accusative | caeruleum | caeruleam | caeruleum | caeruleōs | caeruleās | caerulea | |
| Ablative | caeruleō | caeruleā | caeruleō | caeruleīs | |||
| Vocative | caerulee | caerulea | caeruleum | caeruleī | caeruleae | caerulea | |
Derived terms edit
Descendants edit
- → English: cerulean
- → French: céruléen
- → Italian: ceruleo
- → Portuguese: cerúleo
- → Romanian: ceruleu
- → Spanish: cerúleo
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 |
References edit
- “caeruleus” on page 278 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (2nd ed., 2012)
Further reading edit
- “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.