flavus

Esperanto

Verb

flavus

1. conditional of flavi

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *flāwos, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰl̥h₁wós, from *bʰel- (“light, bright”, whence Russian бе́лый (bélyj), Sanskrit भर्ग (bharga), English blue) +‎ *-wós (whence Latin -vus). Cognate with Proto-Celtic *blāwos (“yellow”) and Proto-Germanic *blēwaz (“blue”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈflaː.u̯us/, [ˈfɫ̪äːu̯ʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈfla.vus/, [ˈfläːvus]

Adjective

flāvus (feminine flāva, neuter flāvum, comparative flāvior, superlative flāvissimus); first/second-declension adjective

1. yellow, golden
2. blond, flaxen

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

Number	Singular				Plural
Case / Gender	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter		Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative	flāvus	flāva	flāvum		flāvī	flāvae	flāva
Genitive	flāvī	flāvae	flāvī		flāvōrum	flāvārum	flāvōrum
Dative	flāvō		flāvō		flāvīs
Accusative	flāvum	flāvam	flāvum		flāvōs	flāvās	flāva
Ablative	flāvō	flāvā	flāvō		flāvīs
Vocative	flāve	flāva	flāvum		flāvī	flāvae	flāva

Derived terms

• flāvēdō
• flāvēns
• flāveō
• flāvēscere
• flāvēscō
• flāvicomus
• flāvidus
• sufflāvus

 

Descendants

• flāvulus (diminutive) ⇒ Neapolitan: (Irpino dialect) javolo (“pallid”)
• >? French: flou (disputed; see etymology for discussion)
• → Esperanto: flava
• → Ido: flava
• → Italian: flavo
• → Portuguese: flavo
• → Spanish: flavo

See also

Colors in Latin · colōrēs (layout · text)

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

• “flavus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “flavus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• flavus 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)
• flavus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “flavus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “flavus”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray