blavus

Latin

Borrowed from a descendant of Proto-Germanic *blēwaz (“blue”). First attested in Isidore of Seville.

blāvus (feminine blāva, neuter blāvum); first/second-declension adjective (Late Latin)

	masculine	feminine	neuter	masculine	feminine	neuter
	singular			plural
nominative	blāvus	blāva	blāvum	blāvī	blāvae	blāva
genitive	blāvī	blāvae	blāvī	blāvōrum	blāvārum	blāvōrum
dative	blāvō	blāvae	blāvō	blāvīs
accusative	blāvum	blāvam	blāvum	blāvōs	blāvās	blāva
ablative	blāvō	blāvā	blāvō	blāvīs
vocative	blāve	blāva	blāvum	blāvī	blāvae	blāva

Italo-Romance:
- Italian: biavo (dialectal, obsolete)
Padanian:
- Romansch: blau, blo, blov
- Venetan: biavo
Northern Gallo-Romance:
- Old French: bloe, blou, bleu, blu, blef, bleve
  - Bourguignon: blieu
  - Champenois: bieu
  - Middle French: bleu
    - French: bleu
      - Haitian Creole: ble
      - → Greek: μπλε (ble)
      - → Italian: blu
      - → Ladino: blö
      - Louisiana Creole: blé, ble
    - → Dutch: bleu
  - Norman: bliû (Jersey), bllu, blleu
  - Walloon: bleu, bleuwe, blåwe
  - → Middle English: blew, bleu, blewe, blue, blw, blwe, blyu
    - English: blue
    - Scots: blew, blue
    - Yola: blue
  - → Sicilian: blu
  - →? Ladino: blu
Southern Gallo-Romance:
- Catalan: blau, blava
- Occitan: blau, blava
Ibero-Romance:
- Portuguese: blao, blau (dialectal, obsolete)
- Old Spanish: blavo

Colors in Latin · colōrēs (layout · text)
albus, candidus, cānus, marmoreus (poetic), eburneus (poetic), niveus (poetic), argenteus (poetic), lacteus (poetic)	rāvus, pullus, mūrīnus (of livestock)	niger, āter, furvus, fuscus ("swarthy"), piceus (poetic)
ruber, russus, rūbidus (dark), flammeus (poetic); rutilus, pūniceus, spādīx (poetic), sanguineus (poetic)	rūfus, rutilus, rōbus (of oxen), croceus (poetic), aureus (poetic); fulvus (poetic), niger (of eyes), badius (of horses)	lūteus, flāvus ("blond"), lūridus, gilvus (of horses), helvus (of cattle); cēreus (poetic)
viridis, flāvus (poetic)	viridis, herbeus (of eyes), fulvus (poetic)	viridis, glaucus (poetic), caeruleus (poetic, only dark)
	glaucus (poetic), caeruleus, caesius (of eyes)	caeruleus, līvidus, ferrūgineus (poetic), glaucus (poetic)
violāceus	purpureus (underlying shade)	roseus

"blavus", 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)