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caeruleus

Pronunciation: [kae̯ˈrʊ.ɫe.ʊs]

“caeruleus” is a Latin word. Its 8 meanings in English:

adjective

  1. Dyed or colored blue
  2. Colored with woad
  3. Used as an epithet of sea and river deities or things connected with them
  4. Glossy greenish-blue
  5. Blue-eyed
  6. Dark-colored, dusky, gloomy
  7. A spring and aqueduct at Rome
  8. Of or connected with the sky, celestial

Etymology

Dissimilation of *caeluleus, derived from caelum (“sky, heaven”) + -uleus (diminutive suffix). However, in Classical Latin the word is attested as denoting the color of the rainy sky and that of deep water, and was on the whole associated with water.

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