cerussa

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Latin

Pronunciation

Noun

cērussa f (genitive cērussae); first declension

  1. A white-lead or ceruse used by women to make the skin white.

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative cērussa cērussae
Genitive cērussae cērussārum
Dative cērussae cērussīs
Accusative cērussam cērussās
Ablative cērussā cērussīs
Vocative cērussa cērussae

Derived terms

Descendants

  • English: ceruse, cerussite

References

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