glaucus

From Ancient Greek γλαυκός (glaukós, “blue-green, blue-grey”).

glaucus (plural glaucuses)

1. Any member of the genus Glaucus of nudibranchiate mollusks, found in the warmer latitudes, swimming in the open sea, strikingly colored with blue and silvery white.
2. Citrus glauca, the desert lime, a thorny shrub species endemic to semi-arid regions of Australia.
   • 1833, Charles Sturt, Two Expeditions into the Interior of Southern Australia, Complete‎:

     This pass is extremely abrupt, and is covered with glaucus, the low scrub I have noticed as common to the sand-stone formation.

• (nudibranchiate mollusk): sea swallow, blue angel, blue glaucus, blue dragon, blue sea slug, blue ocean slug

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• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈɡlau̯.kus/, [ˈɡɫ̪äu̯kʊs̠]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈɡlau̯.kus/, [ˈɡläːu̯kus]

From Ancient Greek γλαυκός (glaukós, “blue-green, blue-grey”).

glaucus (feminine glauca, neuter glaucum); first/second-declension adjective

1. bright, sparkling, gleaming
2. gray-green, grayish

First/second-declension adjective.

• subglaucus

• glaucēum
• glaucōma
• glaucōpis

• Catalan: glauc
• → English: glaucous
• French: glauque
  • → Romanian: glauc
• Italian: glauco
• Portuguese: glauco
• Romanian: glauc
• Spanish: glauco
• Translingual: See glauc at the Catalogue of Life 

From Ancient Greek γλαῦκος (glaûkos, “an edible grey fish”).

glaucus m (genitive glaucī); second declension

1. (Medieval Latin) a bluish-grey colored fish of uncertain identity, perhaps the derbio

Second-declension noun.

• “glaucus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “glaucus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• glaucus 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)
• “glaucus”, in The Perseus Project (1999) Perseus Encyclopedia‎
• “glaucus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “glaucus”, in William Smith, editor (1848) A Dictionary of Greek Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray
• “glaucus”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly