glaucus
See also: Glaucus
English
two glaucuses Glaucus atlanticus (left) and Glaucus marginatus
Etymology
From Ancient Greek γλαυκός (glaukós, “blue-green, blue-grey”).
Noun
glaucus (plural glaucuses)
- Any member of the genus Glaucus of nudibranchiate mollusks, found in the warmer latitudes, swimming in the open sea, strikingly colored with blue and silvery white.
- Citrus glauca, the desert lime, a thorny shrub species endemic to semi-arid regions of Australia.
- 1833, Charles Sturt, Two Expeditions into the Interior of Southern Australia, Complete:
- This pass is extremely abrupt, and is covered with glaucus, the low scrub I have noticed as common to the sand-stone formation.
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Synonyms
- (nudibranchiate mollusk): sea swallow, blue angel, blue glaucus, blue dragon, blue sea slug, blue ocean slug
References
''Glaucus'' on Wikipedia.Wikipedia 
''Glaucus'' on Wikispecies.Wikispecies 
''Glaucus'' on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons - ''Citrus glauca'' on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- ''Citrus'' on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
- ''Citrus glauca'' on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
Latin
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈɡlau̯.kus/, [ˈɡɫ̪äu̯kʊs̠]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈɡlau̯.kus/, [ˈɡläːu̯kus]
Etymology 1
From Ancient Greek γλαυκός (glaukós, “blue-green, blue-grey”).
Adjective
glaucus (feminine glauca, neuter glaucum); first/second-declension adjective
- bright, sparkling, gleaming
- gray-green, grayish
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
| Nominative | glaucus | glauca | glaucum | glaucī | glaucae | glauca | |
| Genitive | glaucī | glaucae | glaucī | glaucōrum | glaucārum | glaucōrum | |
| Dative | glaucō | glaucō | glaucīs | ||||
| Accusative | glaucum | glaucam | glaucum | glaucōs | glaucās | glauca | |
| Ablative | glaucō | glaucā | glaucō | glaucīs | |||
| Vocative | glauce | glauca | glaucum | glaucī | glaucae | glauca | |
Derived terms
- subglaucus
Related terms
- glaucēum
- glaucōma
- glaucōpis
Descendants
- Catalan: glauc
- → English: glaucous
- French: glauque
- → Romanian: glauc
- Italian: glauco
- Portuguese: glauco
- Romanian: glauc
- Spanish: glauco
- Translingual: See glauc at the Catalogue of Life
Etymology 2
From Ancient Greek γλαῦκος (glaûkos, “an edible grey fish”).
Noun
glaucus m (genitive glaucī); second declension
- (Medieval Latin) a bluish-grey colored fish of uncertain identity, perhaps the derbio
Declension
Second-declension noun.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | glaucus | glaucī |
| Genitive | glaucī | glaucōrum |
| Dative | glaucō | glaucīs |
| Accusative | glaucum | glaucōs |
| Ablative | glaucō | glaucīs |
| Vocative | glauce | glaucī |
References
- “glaucus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “glaucus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- glaucus 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)
- “glaucus”, in The Perseus Project (1999) Perseus Encyclopedia
- “glaucus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “glaucus”, in William Smith, editor (1848) A Dictionary of Greek Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray
- “glaucus”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly