glaucus Latin · revision 33837

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=borrowing|attested=170–c. 90 BC, Accius|origins=grc γλαυκός}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [ˈɡɫau̯.kʊs]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [ˈɡlaːu̯.kus]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''glaucus''' (feminine glauca, neuter glaucum); first/second-declension adjective^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[bor|grc|γλαυκός|tr=glaukós|t=gleaming; bluish-grey]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Köbler 2010) Köbler notes that the further origin of the Greek word is unclear.^(Köbler 2010) Etymonline explains that Homer used it of the gleaming sea, apparently without a colour, and later writers of greenish olive leaves and grey or blue eyes.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Accius has it in a tragedy, of breasts covered with grey-green vine leaves.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is the blue-grey of the sea and rivers, as Lucretius has of the waves, and in poetry of things connected with the sea.^(OLD 2012) Columella and others use it of the colour of eyes,^(OLD 2012) and Virgil of horses, perhaps meaning blue-eyed ones.^(OLD 2012) It is also the grey-green of vegetation, as Virgil's willows with grey-green leaves.^(OLD 2012) Stelten gives “bluish gray”.^(Stelten 1995) English [[m|en|glaucous]] comes from it in the 1670s.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 170–c. 90 BC – Accius, of grey-green vine leaves.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 96–55 BC – Lucretius, of the waves.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 70–19 BC – Virgil, of horses and willows.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 1670s – [[m|en|glaucous]] appears in English.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Adjective===

+ # Blue-grey, of the colour of the sea and rivers; of eyes, grey or blue.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Stelten 1995)

+ # Of horses, perhaps blue-eyed.^(OLD 2012)

+ # Of vegetation, grey-green, [[m|en|glaucous]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[glaucicomans]]

+ * [[glaucēdō]]

+ * [[subglaucus]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[glaucēum]]

+ * [[glaucōma]]

+ * [[glaucōpis]]

+ * [[en|glaucous]]

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+ ==Usage notes==

+ A separate noun ''glaucus'', from [[grc|γλαῦκος|tr=glaûkos]], is an unidentified fish;^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) Isidore explains its name from its white colour.^(TLL) ''Glaucus'' is also the name of several mythological figures: a Boeotian fisherman who became a sea god, the Lycian commander in the Trojan War, and a son of Sisyphus eaten by his own horses.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}