blondus

blondus

Latin

Alternative forms

• blundus

Etymology

Found in Medieval Latin, of Germanic origin, from Frankish *blund (“a mixed color between golden and light-brown”), possibly from Proto-Germanic *blundaz (“mixed, blinding”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰlendʰ- (“to become turbid, see badly, go blind”). Or, from Proto-Germanic *blundaz (“blond”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰl̥ndʰ-, *bʰlendʰ- (“blond, red-haired”).[1]

Watkins instead suggests Proto-Indo-European *bʰel- (“to shine”).[2]

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈblon.dus/, [ˈbɫ̪ɔn̪d̪ʊs̠]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈblon.dus/, [ˈblɔn̪d̪us]

Adjective

blondus (feminine blonda, neuter blondum); first/second-declension adjective

1. (Medieval Latin) blond.

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

Number	Singular				Plural
Case / Gender	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter		Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative	blondus	blonda	blondum		blondī	blondae	blonda
Genitive	blondī	blondae	blondī		blondōrum	blondārum	blondōrum
Dative	blondō		blondō		blondīs
Accusative	blondum	blondam	blondum		blondōs	blondās	blonda
Ablative	blondō	blondā	blondō		blondīs
Vocative	blonde	blonda	blondum		blondī	blondae	blonda

Descendants

• French: blond
  • Catalan: blond
  • English: blond
  • Occitan: blon
  • Spanish: blondo
• Galloitalic:
  • Ligurian: biondo
  • Lombard: biond
  • Piedmontese: biond
  • Emilian-Romagnol: biond
• Italian: biondo
  • Friulian: biont
• Sicilian: brunnu
• Venetian: biondo

See also

• blondinus

References

• blondus 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)
  blundus 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)

1. Douglas Harper (2001–2023), “blond”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
2. “blond”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, →ISBN.