helvus
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Latin
Etymology
From Proto-Italic *heliwos, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰelh₃-i-wó-s (“yellow, green”), from *ǵʰelh₃- (“green, yellow”) + *-i- + *-wós. Cognate with Proto-Germanic *gelwaz (“yellow”), Lithuanian žel̃vas (“greenish”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈhel.u̯us/, [ˈhɛɫ̪u̯ʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈel.vus/, [ˈɛlvus]
Adjective
helvus (feminine helva, neuter helvum); first/second-declension adjective
- honey-yellow
- 4 CE – c. 70 CE, Columella, De Re Rustica 3.2:
- Sunt et Helvolae, quās nōn nūllī variās appellant, neque purpureae neque nigrae, ab helvō, nisi fallor, colōre vocitātae.
- There are also the Helvolans, which some call variae. They are neither purple nor black; from their honey-yellow colour they get their name, if I'm not wrong.
- Sunt et Helvolae, quās nōn nūllī variās appellant, neque purpureae neque nigrae, ab helvō, nisi fallor, colōre vocitātae.
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
| singular | plural | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| masculine | feminine | neuter | masculine | feminine | neuter | ||
| nominative | helvus | helva | helvum | helvī | helvae | helva | |
| genitive | helvī | helvae | helvī | helvōrum | helvārum | helvōrum | |
| dative | helvō | helvae | helvō | helvīs | |||
| accusative | helvum | helvam | helvum | helvōs | helvās | helva | |
| ablative | helvō | helvā | helvō | helvīs | |||
| vocative | helve | helva | helvum | helvī | helvae | helva | |
Synonyms
- (yellow): flavus
Derived terms
See also
| albus, candidus, subalbus, niveus, cēreus, marmoreus, eburneus, cānus, blancus (ML.) | glaucus, rāvus, pullus, cinereus, cinerāceus, plumbeus, grīseus (ML. or NL.) | niger, āter, piceus, furvus |
| ruber, rūbidus, rūfus, rubicundus, russus, rubrīcus, pūniceus, murrinus, mulleus; cocceus, coccīnus, badius | rutilus, armeniacus, aurantius, aurantiacus; fuscus, suffuscus, colōrius, cervīnus, spādīx, castaneus, aquilus, fulvus, brunneus (ML.) | flāvus, sufflāvus, flāvidus, fulvus, lūteus, gilvus, helvus, croceus, pallidus, blondinus (ML.) |
| galbus, galbinus, lūridus | viridis | prasinus |
| cȳaneus | caeruleus, azurīnus (ML.), caesius, blāvus (LL.) | glaucus; līvidus; venetus |
| violāceus, ianthinus, balaustīnus (NL.) | ostrīnus, amethystīnus | purpureus, ātropurpureus, roseus, rosāceus |
References
- “helvus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- helvus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 282
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