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helvus
helvus
Latin
Adjective
helvus m (feminine helva, neuter helvum); first/second declension
- honey-yellow
- 1st century AD, Lucius Iunius Moderatus Columella, De Re Rustica, Book III Ch. 2
- Sunt et Helvolae, quas non nulli varias appellant, neque purpureae neque nigrae, ab helvo, nisi fallor, colore vocitatae.
- 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, quas non nulli varias appellant, neque purpureae neque nigrae, ab helvo, nisi fallor, colore vocitatae.
- 1st century AD, Lucius Iunius Moderatus Columella, De Re Rustica, Book III Ch. 2
Inflection
First/second declension.
Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
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Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
nominative | helvus | helva | helvum | helvī | helvae | helva | |
genitive | helvī | helvae | helvī | helvōrum | helvārum | helvōrum | |
dative | helvō | helvō | helvīs | ||||
accusative | helvum | helvam | helvum | helvōs | helvās | helva | |
ablative | helvō | helvā | helvō | helvīs | |||
vocative | helve | helva | helvum | helvī | helvae | helva |
Derived terms
- helvolus
- helvius
- helvella
Synonyms
- (yellow): flavus
References
- helvus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- Félix Gaffiot (1934), “helvus”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
- De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, page 282