croceum
Dictionary entries
- Entry →crocea, croceae:
Feminine · Noun · 1st declension
- Frequency:
- Uncommon
- Dictionary:
- Stelten (Ecclesiastical Latin)
- Age:
- Later
- Field:
- Religion
crozier/crosier, bishop's crook/pastoral staff; long mantle w/cape and sleeves;
gen. pl. - Entry →croceus, crocea, croceum:
Adjective · 1st declension
- Frequency:
- Common
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
yellow, golden; saffron-colored; of saffron/its oil, saffron-; scarlet (Ecc);
acc. sg. (m.)acc. sg. (n.)nom. sg. (n.)voc. sg. (n.)
Examples
Liber II
Aulus Gellius
"...igneum" aliquid dicit et "flammeum" et "sanguineum" et "croceum" et "ostrinum" et "aureum". "Russus" enim color et "ruber..."Aeneid IX
P. Vergilius Maro (Vergil) from The Aeneid
"...prima novo spargebat lumine terras Tithoni croceum linquens Aurora cubile. iam sole infuso, iam rebus luce retectis Turnus..."Aeneid IV
P. Vergilius Maro (Vergil) from The Aeneid
"...prima novo spargebat lumine terras Tithoni croceum linquens Aurora cubile. regina e speculis ut primam albescere lucem vidit..."Liber I
P. Vergilius Maro (Vergil) from The Georgics
"...diuersi rumpent radii, aut ubi pallida surget Tithoni croceum linquens Aurora cubile, heu, male tum mitis defendet pampinus..."Metamorphoses III
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Metamorphoses
"...rogum quassasque faces feretrumque parabant: nusquam corpus erat; croceum pro corpore florem inveniunt foliis medium cingentibus albis. Cognita..."
