Ancient Greek

Grey olive leaves

Adjective

γλαυκός • ‎(glaukós) m ‎(feminine γλαυκή, neuter γλαυκόν); first/second declension

1. gleaming, bright
2. blue-green or gray
   • 406 BCE, Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus 700–701

     Χορός   ... ὃ τᾷδε θάλλει μέγιστα χώρᾳ,
     γλαυκᾶς παιδοτρόφου φύλλον ἐλαίας

     Chorus: [a plant] that flourishes greatly in this land,
     the leaf of the child-nourishing gray olive tree

3. (of an eye color) light blue or gray

Inflection

Descendants

• Latin: glaucus
  • English: glaucous

Antonyms

• (eye color): αἰγωπός ‎(aigōpós), μέλας ‎(mélas), χαροπός ‎(kharopós)

References

• γλαυκός in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• γλαυκός in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• γλαυκός in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• «γλαυκός» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• «γλαυκός» in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• «γλαυκός» in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (© 2006–2016)
• γλαυκός in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English-Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • blue idem, page 85.
  • gray idem, page 371.

1. ↑ Barber, Sievers' Law and the History of Semivowel Syllabicity in Indo-European and Ancient Greek
2. ↑ Beekes, Etymological Dictionary of Greek, p. 274-5