viridis
Latin
Alternative forms
- virdis (Vulgar Latin)
Etymology
From the verb vireo (“to be verdant, to sprout”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈwi.ri.dis/, [ˈwɪ.rɪ.dɪs]
Inflection
Third declension.
Number | Singular | Plural | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Case / Gender | Masc./Fem. | Neuter | Masc./Fem. | Neuter | |
Nominative | viridis | viride | viridēs | viridia | |
Genitive | viridis | viridis | viridium | viridium | |
Dative | viridī | viridī | viridibus | viridibus | |
Accusative | viridem | viride | viridēs, viridīs | viridia | |
Ablative | viridī | viridī | viridibus | viridibus | |
Vocative | viridis | viride | viridēs | viridia |
Descendants
- Corsican: verde, verdi
- Dalmatian: viard
- Eastern Romance:
- Franco-Provençal: vèrd, vèrt
- Istriot: virdo
- Italian: verde
- Ligurian: vèrde
- Lombard: verd
- Navarro-Aragonese:
- Aragonese: verde
- Neapolitan: verde
- Old French: vert
- Old Leonese:
- Old Occitan: vert
- Old Portuguese: verde
- Old Spanish:
- Rhaeto-Romance:
- Sardinian: bidre, birde, virde
- Sicilian: virdi
- Venetian: vérdo
- → Albanian: verdhë
- → Breton: gwer
- → Cornish: gwyrdh, gwer
- → English: virid
- → Welsh: gwyrdd
- ⇒ Vulgar Latin: *virdia
See also
Colors in Latin · colōrēs (layout · text) | ||||
---|---|---|---|---|
candidus, albus, niveus, cēreus, marmoreus, eburneus | cānus, rāvus, pullus, cinereus, cinericeus, plumbeus, grīseus | āter, niger, piceus | ||
pūniceus, murrhinus, rūfus, ruber, russus, rubrīcus, mulleus ; cocceus, coccīnus, badius | rutilus, armeniacus, auranteus, aurantiacus ; fuscus, colōrius, cervīnus, spādīx | gilvus, helvus, fulvus, flāvus, croceus, pallidus, lūteus | ||
galbus, galbīnus, lūridus | viridis | prasinus | ||
cyaneus | caeruleus, azurīnus | glaucus; līvidus; venetus, blaveus | ||
violāceus, ianthinus | purpureus, ostrīnus, ātropurpūreus, amethystīnus | roseus, rosāceus |
References
- viridis in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- viridis in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- viridis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
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