γλαυκός

See also: Γλαῦκος

Ancient Greek

Grey olive leaves

Etymology

Uncertain origin. Barber reconstructs Proto-Indo-European *gleh₂w-ko-, noting that the root only appears in Greek (Homer, Aeschylus), but Beekes finds an Indo-European origin unlikely.

Adjective

γλαυκός • ‎(glaukós) m ‎(feminine γλαυκή, neuter γλαυκόν); first/second declension

1. gleaming, bright
2. blue-green or gray
   • 406 BCE, Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus 700–701

     Χορός   ... ὃ τᾷδε θάλλει μέγιστα χώρᾳ,
     γλαυκᾶς παιδοτρόφου φύλλον ἐλαίας

     Chorus: [a plant] that flourishes greatly in this land,
     the leaf of the child-nourishing gray olive tree

3. (of an eye color) light blue or gray

Inflection

    First and second declension of γλαυκός, γλαυκή, γλαυκόν

Number	Singular			Dual			Plural
Case / Gender	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative	γλαυκός	γλαυκή	γλαυκόν	γλαυκώ	γλαυκᾱ́	γλαυκώ	γλαυκοί	γλαυκαί	γλαυκᾰ́
Genitive	γλαυκοῦ	γλαυκῆς	γλαυκοῦ	γλαυκοῖν	γλαυκαῖν	γλαυκοῖν	γλαυκῶν	γλαυκῶν	γλαυκῶν
Dative	γλαυκῷ	γλαυκῇ	γλαυκῷ	γλαυκοῖν	γλαυκαῖν	γλαυκοῖν	γλαυκοῖς	γλαυκαῖς	γλαυκοῖς
Accusative	γλαυκόν	γλαυκήν	γλαυκόν	γλαυκώ	γλαυκᾱ́	γλαυκώ	γλαυκούς	γλαυκᾱ́ς	γλαυκᾰ́
Vocative	γλαυκέ	γλαυκή	γλαυκόν	γλαυκώ	γλαυκᾱ́	γλαυκώ	γλαυκοί	γλαυκαί	γλαυκᾰ́

Descendants

• Latin: glaucus
  • English: glaucous

Antonyms

• (eye color): αἰγωπός ‎(aigōpós), μέλας ‎(mélas), χαροπός ‎(kharopós)

References

• γλαυκός in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• γλαυκός in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• γλαυκός in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• «γλαυκός» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• «γλαυκός» in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• «γλαυκός» in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (© 2006–2016)
• γλαυκός in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English-Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • blue idem, page 85.
  • gray idem, page 371.