glaucus

See also: Glaucus

English

From Ancient Greek γλαυκός (glaukós, “blue-green, blue-grey”).

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.
A desert lime (Citrus glauca), 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.

From Ancient Greek γλαυκός (glaukós, “blue-green, blue-grey”).

glaucus (feminine glauca, neuter glaucum); first/second-declension adjective

	masculine	feminine	neuter	masculine	feminine	neuter
	singular			plural
nominative	glaucus	glauca	glaucum	glaucī	glaucae	glauca
genitive	glaucī	glaucae	glaucī	glaucōrum	glaucārum	glaucōrum
dative	glaucō	glaucae	glaucō	glaucīs
accusative	glaucum	glaucam	glaucum	glaucōs	glaucās	glauca
ablative	glaucō	glaucā	glaucō	glaucīs
vocative	glauce	glauca	glaucum	glaucī	glaucae	glauca

From Ancient Greek γλαῦκος (glaûkos, “an edible grey fish”).

glaucus m (genitive glaucī); second declension

(Medieval Latin) a bluish-grey colored fish of uncertain identity, perhaps the derbio

“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

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