Meaning of helvus | Babel Free

Definitions

1. dun, yellow dun
   adjective, declension-1, declension-2
2. Equivalent to 'honey-colored': having the color of honey; golden

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Examples

“qui gregem armentorum emere vult, observare debet primum, ut sint eae pecudes aetate potius ad fructos ferendos integrae quam iam expartae; ut sint bene conpositae, … colore potissimum nigro, deinde robeo, tertio helvo, quarto albo: mollissimus enim hic, ut durissimus primus. de mediis duobus prior quam posterior in eo prior, utrique plures quam nigri et albi.”

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“Sunt et Helvolae, quās nōn nūllī variās appellant, neque purpureae neque nigrae, ab helvō, nisi fallor, colōre vocitātae.”

There are also the Helvolae [grapes], which some call variae. They are neither purple nor black; the name, if I'm not wrong, is from the color "dun".

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