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
- A
Liber II
Aulus Gellius
"...igneum" aliquid dicit et "flammeum" et "sanguineum" et "croceum" et "ostrinum" et "aureum". "Russus" enim color et "ruber..." - P
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..." - P
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..." - P
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..." - P
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..."