glaucus

See also: Glaucus

English

two glaucuses Glaucus atlanticus (left) and Glaucus marginatus

Etymology

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

Noun

glaucus (plural glaucuses)

1. 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.
2. 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

• (nudibranchiate mollusk): sea swallow, blue angel, blue glaucus, blue dragon, blue sea slug, blue ocean slug

References

• 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

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈɡlau̯.kus/, [ˈɡɫ̪äu̯kʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈɡlau̯.kus/, [ˈɡläːu̯kus]

Etymology 1

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

Adjective

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

1. bright, sparkling, gleaming
2. gray-green, grayish

Declension

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

• subglaucus

See also

Colors in Latin · colōrēs (layout · text)

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

• glaucēum
• glaucōma
• glaucōpis

Descendants

• 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

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

Noun

glaucus m (genitive glaucī); second declension

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

Declension

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

• “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