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Adiectivum femininum CEFR B1
[ˈɡɫau̯.kʊs]

Definitiones

  1. shining
  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)
  3. synonym of caesius
  4. blue-black
  5. afflicted with an eye disease that prevents seeing

Aequivalentia

العربية كحلي
Ελληνικά μαυρογάλανος
日本語
한국어

Exempla

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.

Gradus CEFR

B1
Medius
Hoc verbum pars est vocabularii CEFR B1 — gradus medius.
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