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flavus

yellow, blonde

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Where it lives

De Bissula 1 · 27.25/10k
Praefatiunculae 1 · 18.25/10k
Fescinnina de nuptiis Honorii Augusti 1 · 18.25/10k
Medicamina faciei femineae 1 · 16.31/10k
Pro Q. Roscio Comoedo 6 · 12.6/10k
Panegyricus de quarto consulatu Honorii Augusti 3 · 7.57/10k
Diadumenus Antoninus 1 · 5.99/10k
Panegyricus dictus Probino et Olybrio consulibus 1 · 5.88/10k
Carmina 7 · 5.27/10k
Amores 8 · 5.12/10k
Epithalamium de nuptiis Honorii Augusti 1 · 4.57/10k
In Eutropium 3 · 4.18/10k

Densest 12 of 77 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

1. flavus — de Vaan

flavus 'yellow, blonde' [adj. o/a\ (Enn.+) Derivatives: flavescere 'to turn yellow' (Cato+). » '■'■ \. * Pit *flawo-. h PIE *b leh3-uo- 'yellow'? IE cognates: Mir. bio 'yellow'; OHG blao, OE blow, Olc. f — [de Vaan, s.v. flavus, p. 239]

2. flāvus — Lewis & Short

flāvus, a, um, adj.for flag-vus from FLAG, flagro, burning, light-colored,

I golden yellow, reddish yellow, flaxen-colored, canqo/s (mostly poet.): color, Col. 4, 3, 4: mellis dulci flavoque liquore, Lucr. 1, 938; 4, 13: mella, Mart. 1, 56, 10: aurum, Verg. A. 1, 592: Ceres, id. G. 1, 96; cf. of the same: et te, flava comas, frugum mitissima mater, Ov. M. 6, 118: mare marmore flavo, Enn. ap. Gell. 2, 26 (Ann. v. 377 ed. Vahl.): arva, Verg. G. 1, 316: crines, id. A. 12, 605: coma, Hor. C. 1, 5, 4; cf.: Galanthis flava comas, Ov. M. 9, 307: flavus comarum Curio, Sil. 9, 414: Ganymedes, Hor. C. 4, 4, 4: Phyllis, id. ib. 2, 4, 14: Chloë, id. ib. 3, 9, 19: Tiberis, reddish yellow (from the puzzolan earth on its ground), id. ib. 1, 2, 13; 1, 8, 8; 2, 3, 18: Tiberinus multa flavus harena, Verg. A. 7, 31; Ov. M. 14, 447: Lycormas, id. ib. 2, 245: pudor, blushing, Sen. Hippol. 652: capillus in flavum colorem, Vulg. Lev. 13, 36; 30.— Subst.: an de moneta Caesaris decem flavos, gold pieces (cf. Engl. yellow-boys), Mart. 12, 65, 6.—Comp.: flavior, Boëth. ap. Porphyr. Dial. 2, p. 31.

3. flávus — Walde–Hofmann

flávus, -a, -um „goldgelb, rotgelb, blond“ (seit Enn., rom. unsicher [s. Wartburg jii 615; daneben grm. Lw. blävus Isid., Sofer Isid. 108 £], -idus „gelblich“ seit Plin., rom.; -£re „gelb sein" seit Catull, -éscere „gelb, fahl werden“ seit Cato; flävi-comus, -comäns (nach auri-) Spütl): o. Fiaviies Gen. Sg. „Flävii“; weiterhin als *bhläuos (*bh,la-uo-s?; doch s. u.) zu "bhíz-uos in ahd. blado „blau* (auch „gelb“, … — [Walde–Hofmann, s.v. flávus, p. 545]

In the wild

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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. flavus (scan p. 239; entry #586). Root candidates: *flawo-.
Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch Treated in Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. flávus (scan pp. 545-547; entry #1135). Root candidates: *bhlä-, *bhel-, *ghel-.

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