croceus Latin · revision 32826

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=70–19 BC, Virgil|origins=grc κρόκος}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [ˈkrɔ.ke.ʊs]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [ˈkrɔː.t͡ʃe.us]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''croceus''' (feminine crocea, neuter croceum); first/second-declension adjective^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|crocus|-eus|t1=saffron]].^(OLD 2012)^(TLL)^(Wiktionary) [[m|la|crocus]] is borrowed from [[grc|κρόκος|tr=krókos|t=crocus, saffron]].^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ The TLL finds it first in Virgil.^(TLL)^(Köbler 2010) In the OLD's earliest quotation he has the scents of saffron.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is of saffron or its oil: Virgil has saffron scents and flowers, and Pliny the Elder a saffron sauce.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) It is above all saffron-coloured, yellow: in Virgil the ram will change his fleece to saffron yellow.^(OLD 2012) Köbler records a medieval noun meaning saffron colour and egg yolk, from Albertus Magnus.^(Köbler 2010) Church Latin glosses it scarlet, saffron, orange-coloured.^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 70–19 BC – Virgil of saffron scents and of a ram's fleece.^(OLD 2012)^(TLL)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 23/24–79 AD – Pliny the Elder of saffron sauce.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 13th century – Albertus Magnus has a noun for saffron colour.^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Adjective===

+ # Of [[m|en|saffron]] or its oil.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # Saffron-coloured, [[m|en|yellow]], orange.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[crocus]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}