cereus

See also: Cereus

English

Etymology

From the genus name. Doublet of serge.

Noun

cereus (plural cereuses)

  1. Any of the genus Cereus of plants of the cactus family, natives to the Americas, from California to Chile.

References

Anagrams


Latin

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From cēra (“wax”).

Adjective

cēreus (feminine cērea, neuter cēreum); first/second-declension adjective

  1. of wax, waxen
  2. of the colour of wax
  3. of the properties of wax; soft, pliant
  4. (figuratively) easily moved, swayed or persuaded
Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

Number Singular Plural
Case / Gender Masculine Feminine Neuter Masculine Feminine Neuter
Nominative cēreus cērea cēreum cēreī cēreae cērea
Genitive cēreī cēreae cēreī cēreōrum cēreārum cēreōrum
Dative cēreō cēreō cēreīs
Accusative cēreum cēream cēreum cēreōs cēreās cērea
Ablative cēreō cēreā cēreō cēreīs
Vocative cēree cērea cēreum cēreī cēreae cērea
Derived terms
Descendants
  • Catalan: ceri
  • Galician: céreo
  • Italian: cereo
  • Portuguese: céreo
  • Spanish: céreo
  • French: cierge

Etymology 2

Substantive from cēreus fūnis (“waxen cord”).

Noun

cēreus m (genitive cēreī); second declension

  1. a wax taper or light, particularly those that were brought by clients to their patrons as presents at the time of the Saturnalia
Declension

Second-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative cēreus cēreī
Genitive cēreī cēreōrum
Dative cēreō cēreīs
Accusative cēreum cēreōs
Ablative cēreō cēreīs
Vocative cēree cēreī
Descendants
  • Dalmatian:
  • Italo-Romance:
  • Padanian:
  • Northern Gallo-Romance:
    • Franco-Provençal: ciéro
    • French: cierge
      • →? Franco-Provençal: ciérjo
  • Southern Gallo-Romance:
  • Ibero-Romance:
  • Insular Romance:
    • Sardinian: chíriu

See also
Colors in Latin · colōrēs (layout · text)
     albus, candidus, subalbus, niveus, cēreus, marmoreus, eburneus, cānus, blancus (ML.)      glaucus, rāvus, pullus, cinereus, cinerāceus, plumbeus, grīseus (ML. or NL.)      niger, āter, piceus, furvus
             ruber, rūbidus, rūfus, rubicundus, russus, rubrīcus, pūniceus, murrinus, mulleus; cocceus, coccīnus, badius              rutilus, armeniacus, aurantius, aurantiacus; fuscus, suffuscus, colōrius, cervīnus, spādīx, castaneus, aquilus, fulvus, brunneus (ML.)              flāvus, sufflāvus, flāvidus, fulvus, lūteus, gilvus, helvus, croceus, pallidus, blondinus (ML.)
             galbus, galbinus, lūridus              viridis              prasinus
             cȳaneus              caeruleus, azurīnus (ML.), caesius, blāvus (LL.)              glaucus; līvidus; venetus
             violāceus, ianthinus, balaustīnus (NL.)              ostrīnus, amethystīnus              purpureus, ātropurpureus, roseus, rosāceus

References
  • “cereus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “cereus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • cereus 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)
  • cereus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • “cereus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
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