flavus

Esperanto

Verb

flavus

  1. conditional of flavi

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *flāwos, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰl̥h₁wós, from *bʰel- (“light, bright”) (whence Russian белый (belyj), Sanskrit भर्ग (bharga), English blue) + *-wós (whence Latin -vus).

Pronunciation

Adjective

flāvus (feminine flāva, neuter flāvum); first/second declension

  1. yellow, golden
  2. blond, flaxen

Inflection

First/second declension.

Number Singular Plural
Case / Gender Masculine Feminine Neuter Masculine Feminine Neuter
Nominative flāvus flāva flāvum flāvī flāvae flāva
Genitive flāvī flāvae flāvī flāvōrum flāvārum flāvōrum
Dative flāvō flāvae flāvō flāvīs flāvīs flāvīs
Accusative flāvum flāvam flāvum flāvōs flāvās flāva
Ablative flāvō flāvā flāvō flāvīs flāvīs flāvīs
Vocative flāve flāva flāvum flāvī flāvae flāva
  • comparative: flāvior, superlative: flāvissimus

Derived terms

Descendants

References
  • flavus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • flavus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • flavus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
  • flavus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
  • flavus in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • flavus in William Smith, editor (1848) A Dictionary of Greek Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray
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