cereus

See also: Cereus

English

cereus (plural cereuses)

Any of the genus Cereus, either as currently or formerly defined, of plants of the cactus family, natives to the Americas, from California to Chile.

cactus

Arabic: شَمْعِيَّة f (šamʕiyya), شَمَعِيَّة f (šamaʕiyya)
Belarusian: цэ́рэус m (céreus)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 仙人柱 (xiānrénzhù), 天輪柱 / 天轮柱 (tiānlúnzhù), 六角柱 (zh) (liùjiǎozhù)
Dutch: zuilcactus (nl) m
Finnish: pylväskaktus (fi)
French: cierge (fr) m
Georgian: ცერეუსი (cereusi)
Polish: pałczak m, otąg m
Russian: цереус (ru) m (cereus)
Serbo-Croatian:
Latin: stupasti kaktus m
Slovak: fakľovec m
Spanish: gigantón (es) m, aguacolla f
Swedish: pelarkaktus c
Ukrainian: цере́ус (uk) m (ceréus)

From cēra (“wax”).

cēreus (feminine cērea, neuter cēreum); first/second-declension adjective

	masculine	feminine	neuter	masculine	feminine	neuter
	singular			plural
nominative	cēreus	cērea	cēreum	cēreī	cēreae	cērea
genitive	cēreī	cēreae	cēreī	cēreōrum	cēreārum	cēreōrum
dative	cēreō	cēreae	cēreō	cēreīs
accusative	cēreum	cēream	cēreum	cēreōs	cēreās	cērea
ablative	cēreō	cēreā	cēreō	cēreīs
vocative	cēree	cērea	cēreum	cēreī	cēreae	cērea

Substantive from cēreus fūnis (“waxen cord”).

cēreus m (genitive cēreī); second declension

a wax taper or light, particularly those that were brought by clients to their patrons as presents at the time of the Saturnalia

Italo-Dalmatian:
- Dalmatian: cir
- Italian: cerio, cero
Gallo-Italic:
- Piedmontese: siri
Northern Gallo-Romance:
- Franco-Provençal: ciéro
- French: cierge
  - →? Franco-Provençal: ciérjo
Southern Gallo-Romance:
- Catalan: ciri
- Occitan: ciri
Ibero-Romance:
- Portuguese: círio
- Spanish: cirio
Insular Romance:
- Sardinian: chíriu

“cereus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“cereus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
"cereus", 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)
“cereus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
“cereus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers

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