blondus

• blundus

Found in Medieval Latin, of uncertain origin, though usually considered Germanic. A theoretical Proto-Germanic *blundaz (perhaps meaning “mixed, variegated”) could be derived from Proto-Indo-European *bʰlendʰ- (“to become turbid, go blind”) or, as Watkins suggests, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰel- (“to shine”).[1][2] However, as no such word is attested in any Germanic language (English blond, German blond, etc., all being borrowings from Old French), the Germanic theory mainly rests on the lack of another plausible derivation.

Also compare Sanskrit ब्रध्न (bradhna, “yellowish”), considered to be related.[3]

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈblon.dus/, [ˈbɫ̪ɔn̪d̪ʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈblon.dus/, [ˈblɔn̪d̪us]

blondus (feminine blonda, neuter blondum); first/second-declension adjective

1. (Medieval Latin) blond.

First/second-declension adjective.

• French: blond
  • Catalan: blond
  • English: blond
  • Occitan: blon
  • Spanish: blondo
• Galloitalic:
  • Ligurian: biondo
  • Lombard: biond
  • Piedmontese: biond
  • Emilian-Romagnol: biond
• Italian: biondo
  • Friulian: biont
• Sicilian: brunnu
• Venetian: biondo

• blondinus

• blondus 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)
  blundus 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)