auricomus

Latin

Etymology

From aurum (“gold”) + coma (“hair of the head”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /au̯ˈri.ko.mus/, [äu̯ˈrɪkɔmʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /au̯ˈri.ko.mus/, [äu̯ˈriːkomus]

Adjective

auricomus (feminine auricoma, neuter auricomum); first/second-declension adjective

1. with golden hair, golden-haired
2. (poetic) with golden foliage

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

Number	Singular				Plural
Case / Gender	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter		Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative	auricomus	auricoma	auricomum		auricomī	auricomae	auricoma
Genitive	auricomī	auricomae	auricomī		auricomōrum	auricomārum	auricomōrum
Dative	auricomō		auricomō		auricomīs
Accusative	auricomum	auricomam	auricomum		auricomōs	auricomās	auricoma
Ablative	auricomō	auricomā	auricomō		auricomīs
Vocative	auricome	auricoma	auricomum		auricomī	auricomae	auricoma

Synonyms

• (golden-haired): auricomāns

Related terms

• aurāria
• aurārius
• aurāta
• aurātilis
• aurātūra
• aurātus
• aureātus
• Aurēlia
• Aurēlius
• aureolus
• aurēscō
• aureus
• auricoctor
• auricolor
• auricomāns
• aurifer
• aurifex
• aurificīna
• aurificium
• aurifluus
• aurifodīna
• aurifrigium
• aurigāns
• aurigena
• auriger
• aurilegulus
• auripigmentum
• aurō
• aurōsus
• aurūgineus
• aurūginō
• aurūginōsus
• aurūgō
• aurulentus
• aurum

Descendants

• → English: auricomous
• → Portuguese: aurícomo

References

• “auricomus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “auricomus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• auricomus 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)
• auricomus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.