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flavus
flavus
Latin
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *bʰl̥h₁wós, from *bʰel- (“light, bright”) (whence Russian белый (belyj), Sanskrit भर्ग (bharga), English blue) + *-wós (whence Latin -vus).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈflaː.wus/
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈfla.vus/
Adjective
flāvus m (feminine flāva, neuter flāvum); first/second declension
Inflection
First/second declension.
| 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 | |
- comparative: flāvior, superlative: flāvissimus
Derived terms
Descendants
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, 1883–1887)
- Félix Gaffiot (1934), “flavus”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: 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 Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray