helvus
Latin
Etymology
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From Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰelh₃wós (“yellow, green”), from *ǵʰelh₃- (“to shine”) + *-wós (whence Latin -vus). Cognate to Sanskrit हरि (hári), Ancient Greek χλωρός (khlōrós), English gold and Old English ġeolu (English yellow). Akin to holus (“vegetable(s)”) (originally "green things").
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈhel.u̯us/, [ˈhɛɫ̪u̯ʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈel.vus/, [ˈɛlvus]
Adjective
helvus (feminine helva, neuter helvum); first/second-declension adjective
- honey-yellow
- 4 CE – c. 70 CE, Columella, De Re Rustica 3.2:
- Sunt et Helvolae, quās nōn nūllī variās appellant, neque purpureae neque nigrae, ab helvō, nisi fallor, colōre vocitātae.
- There are also the Helvolans, which some call variae. They are neither purple nor black; from their honey-yellow colour they get their name, if I'm not wrong.
- Sunt et Helvolae, quās nōn nūllī variās appellant, neque purpureae neque nigrae, ab helvō, nisi fallor, colōre vocitātae.
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
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Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
Nominative | helvus | helva | helvum | helvī | helvae | helva | |
Genitive | helvī | helvae | helvī | helvōrum | helvārum | helvōrum | |
Dative | helvō | helvō | helvīs | ||||
Accusative | helvum | helvam | helvum | helvōs | helvās | helva | |
Ablative | helvō | helvā | helvō | helvīs | |||
Vocative | helve | helva | helvum | helvī | helvae | helva |
Synonyms
- (yellow): flavus
Derived terms
References
- “helvus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- helvus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 282