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Caesius2

grey-eyed, grey

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Where it lives

Letters to and from Quintus 4 · 2.18/10k
Carmina 2 · 1.55/10k
Pro L. Cornelio Balbo 1 · 1.47/10k
Pro L. Flacco 1 · 0.92/10k
Heautontimorumenos 1 · 0.91/10k
Octavius 1 · 0.86/10k
Epitome Rerum Romanorum 2 · 0.76/10k
Annales 4 · 0.45/10k
In C. Verrem 4 · 0.4/10k
Epigrammata 2 · 0.36/10k
de Natura Deorum 1 · 0.28/10k
Facta et Dicta Memorabilia 2 · 0.25/10k

Densest 12 of 21 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

1. caesius — de Vaan

caesius 'grey-eyed, grey' [adj. o/a] (Ter.+) IE cognates: Lith. skaidrus, skaidrus 'clear, bright, skaistas, skaistus 'bright' < *skoid-; Go. haidus 'way, manner', OHG heitar 'bright, clear' < PGm. *haip-/-t- < PIE *koit-/-dr. Possible preforms include *kaid-to- and *kait-to-. The connection with the Germanic and Baltic forms is semantically unproblematic, but the formation in Latin, with a suffix *-/o after the … — [de Vaan, s.v. caesius, p. 96]

2. caesĭus — Lewis & Short

caesĭus, a, um, adj.cf. caeruleus,

I bluish gray; very rare, and only of the eyes, cat-eyed: virgo caesia, Ter Heaut. 5, 5, 18; v. Don. in h. l. and Gell. 2, 26, 19: isto modo dicere licebit caesios oculos Minervae, caeruleos esse Neptuni, Cic. N. D. 1, 30, 83 (cf. in Gr. glaukw=pis )*aqh/nh): caesia, *palla/dion, has she gray eyes? she is the impersonation of Pallas, * Lucr. 4, 1161: caesius, Ter Hec. 3, 4, 26 (glaucis oculis, quasi felis oculos habens et glaucos, Don.): hunc, judices, dico, rubrum, brevem, incurvum, canum, subcrispum, caesium, Auct. Her. 4, 49, 63: leo, Cat. 45, 7: sub septentrionibus nutriuntur gentes immanibus corporibus oculis caesiis, Vitr. 6, 1.—Sup. caesissimus, acc. to Varr. L. L. 8, § 76 Müll.—Comp. not in use.

3. Caesĭus — Lewis & Short

Caesĭus, i, m.,

I a Roman cognomen.

I M. Caesius, Cic. Fam. 13, 11.—

II Another M. Caesius, Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 50, § 130.—

III P. Caesius, Cic. Balb. 22, 50.—

IV Sex. Caesius, Cic. Fl. 28, 68.—

V Caesius Bassus, the friend to whom Persius addressed his sixth satire; cf. Quint. 10, 1, 96.

4. caesius — Walde–Hofmann

caesius, -«, -um „yAauxög“ (vom funkelnden, hellen Blick des grünlichblauen Auges, opp. rävus „gelbgrau“ Fest. 273; vgl. das raen. Caesius, daraus etr. ceisi usw., Devoto St. Etr. 3, 273), caesullae ‘a caesiis oculis? (Fest. 274, falls nicht Etymologisierung des EN. Caesulla, Fem. zu Caeaó, dann für uns unverbindlich, s. Schulze EN. 137, Solmsen-Fraenkel EN. 149): wohl von *gasd-to- oder *gait-to- „heil, leuchtend“ … — [Walde–Hofmann, s.v. caesius, p. 165]

In the wild

Caesius Cicero, In C. Verrem 2.1.130
Caesius Tacitus, Annales 12.p41
caesia Lucretius, De Rerum Natura 4.1161
Caesius Valerius Maximus, Facta et Dicta Memorabilia 3.2.23.p1
Caesius Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria 10.1.96
Caesius Cicero, Letters to and from Quintus 3.1.3

6 of 39 attestations shown.

Where it came from

de Vaan, Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Brill 2008) Treated in de Vaan, Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Brill 2008) s.v. caesius (scan p. 96; entry #178). Root candidates: *skoid-, *keit-.
Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine Treated in Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine s.v. Caesius (scan p. 109; entry #1507).
Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch Treated in Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. caesius (scan pp. 165-166; entry #499). Root candidates: *kaidjo-.

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