Meaning of glaucus | Babel Free

Definitions

1. shining
   adjective, declension-1, declension-2
2. blue, green like aquamarine, often associated with silvery-green or dark green foliage, waters, sea and darkness (according to a gloss by Placidus, it describes the sea when it is whitened with currents)
   adjective, declension-1, declension-2
3. synonym of caesius
   adjective, declension-1, declension-2, rare
4. blue-black
   adjective, declension-1, declension-2
5. afflicted with an eye disease that prevents seeing
   adjective, declension-1, declension-2

Examples

“Deinde ab iugulō pectus glaucō pampinō obnexae obtegunt.”

Then they cover their breasts from the neck down with the blue vine.

“glaucā cānentia fronde salicta”

Willow groves, hoary with their blue foliage.

“Tandem trāns fluuium incolumīs uātemque uirumque / īnfōrmī līmō glaucāque expōnit in uluā.”

At last, bringing them unharmed across the river, he [Charon] leaves the seeress and the man among the shapeless mud and the blue sedge.

“Honestī [equi] / spādīces glaucīque, color dēterrimus albīs / et gilvō.”

Good [horses] are red and blue. The worst coat have the white horses and the dun horse

“Glaucus color est ferrūgineus subniger.”

'Glaucus' is a dark [blue], almost black color.

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