"caesius" meaning in Latin

See caesius in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Adjective

IPA: [ˈkae̯.si.ʊs] [Classical-Latin], [ˈt͡ʃɛː.s̬i.us] (note: modern Italianate Ecclesiastical)
Etymology: Literally 'cutting, piercing', from caedō (“I cut”) Head templates: {{la-adj|caesius}} caesius (feminine caesia, neuter caesium); first/second-declension adjective Inflection templates: {{la-adecl|caesius}} Forms: caesia [feminine], caesium [neuter], no-table-tags [table-tags], caesius [masculine, nominative, singular], caesia [feminine, nominative, singular], caesium [neuter, nominative, singular], caesiī [masculine, nominative, plural], caesiae [feminine, nominative, plural], caesia [neuter, nominative, plural], caesiī [genitive, masculine, singular], caesiae [feminine, genitive, singular], caesiī [genitive, neuter, singular], caesiōrum [genitive, masculine, plural], caesiārum [feminine, genitive, plural], caesiōrum [genitive, neuter, plural], caesiō [dative, masculine, singular], caesiae [dative, feminine, singular], caesiō [dative, neuter, singular], caesiīs [dative, feminine, masculine, neuter, plural], caesium [accusative, masculine, singular], caesiam [accusative, feminine, singular], caesium [accusative, neuter, singular], caesiōs [accusative, masculine, plural], caesiās [accusative, feminine, plural], caesia [accusative, neuter, plural], caesiō [ablative, masculine, singular], caesiā [ablative, feminine, singular], caesiō [ablative, neuter, singular], caesiīs [ablative, feminine, masculine, neuter, plural], caesie [masculine, singular, vocative], caesia [feminine, singular, vocative], caesium [neuter, singular, vocative], caesiī [masculine, plural, vocative], caesiae [feminine, plural, vocative], caesia [neuter, plural, vocative]
  1. (of the eyes) blue Tags: adjective, declension-1, declension-2
    Sense id: en-caesius-la-adj-Fkd2iMDg Categories (other): Colors Disambiguation of Colors: 67 8 25
  2. (of a person, sometimes derogatory) blue-eyed Tags: adjective, declension-1, declension-2, derogatory, sometimes
    Sense id: en-caesius-la-adj-hop0tI-e
  3. customary translation of γλαυκῶπις (glaukôpis); as well as denoting the associated eye color Tags: adjective, declension-1, declension-2
    Sense id: en-caesius-la-adj-LFOH58pi Categories (other): Latin entries with incorrect language header, Latin links with redundant target parameters, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Pages with tab characters Disambiguation of Latin entries with incorrect language header: 3 9 88 Disambiguation of Latin links with redundant target parameters: 6 9 85 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 0 1 99 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 0 1 99 Disambiguation of Pages with tab characters: 0 2 98
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: caesitās, caesitius

Inflected forms

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        "singular"
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        "singular"
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    {
      "form": "caesiam",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "feminine",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "caesium",
      "source": "declension",
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        "accusative",
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        "singular"
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      "tags": [
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        "masculine",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "caesiās",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
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        "feminine",
        "plural"
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    },
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      "form": "caesia",
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        "neuter",
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      "source": "declension",
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        "vocative"
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        "plural",
        "vocative"
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  "pos": "adj",
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          "_dis": "67 8 25",
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          "name": "Colors",
          "orig": "la:Colors",
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        {
          "english": "From that as well, those nations who are nourished under the North Star, [are] of great bodies, shining white complexions, the quality of their hair is straight and reddish, they have blue eyes …",
          "ref": "c. 80 BCE – 15 BCE, Vitruvius, On Architecture 6.1.3.10",
          "text": "… ex eō quoque, sub septentriōnibus nūtriuntur gentēs, inmānibus corporibus, candidīs colōribus, dīrēctō capillō et rūfō, oculīs caesiīs …",
          "translation": "From that as well, those nations who are nourished under the North Star, [are] of great bodies, shining white complexions, the quality of their hair is straight and reddish, they have blue eyes …"
        },
        {
          "english": "Other than that, some eyes are far-sighted, some eyes are near-sighted. Many eyes can only see in daylight and can't see things well at night nor after a sunset. Some eyes are weaker in daylight, but in the nighttime they see better than all the rest. I have said enough about doubled pupils or faults with eyesight. Blue eyes are brighter in the dark. They say that the Caesar Tiberius, and no other born mortal, had such a natural condition, that whenever he was roused at night, he could see everything in the dark for a while just as if it were in bright light, with the darkness then gradually drawing itself around him. (NB: Pliny describes sight according to the extramission theory of vision, a widespread historical Greek theory that the eyes project light, which enables sight; so he describes blue eyes as emitting more light and therefore seeing better in the dark).",
          "ref": "23 CE – 79 CE, Pliny the Elder, Natural History 11.142.5",
          "text": "Praetereā aliī (oculī) contuentur longinqua, aliī nisi prope admōta nōn cernunt. multōrum vīsus fulgōre sōlis cōnstat, nūbilō diē nōn cernentium nec post occāsūs. aliī interdiū hebetiōrēs, noctū praeter cēterōs cernunt. dē geminīs pūpillīs aut quibus noxiī vīsūs essent satis dīximus. caesiī in tenebrīs clāriōrēs. ferunt Ti. Caesarī, nec aliī genitōrum mortālium, fuisse nātūram expergēfactus noctū paulīsper haut aliō modō quam lūce clārā contuērētur omnia, paulātim tenebrīs sēsē obdūcentibus.",
          "translation": "Other than that, some eyes are far-sighted, some eyes are near-sighted. Many eyes can only see in daylight and can't see things well at night nor after a sunset. Some eyes are weaker in daylight, but in the nighttime they see better than all the rest. I have said enough about doubled pupils or faults with eyesight. Blue eyes are brighter in the dark. They say that the Caesar Tiberius, and no other born mortal, had such a natural condition, that whenever he was roused at night, he could see everything in the dark for a while just as if it were in bright light, with the darkness then gradually drawing itself around him. (NB: Pliny describes sight according to the extramission theory of vision, a widespread historical Greek theory that the eyes project light, which enables sight; so he describes blue eyes as emitting more light and therefore seeing better in the dark)."
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        "(of the eyes) blue"
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          "english": "Sostrata: My son, I'll give you that wonderful one, you'll love her easily, she's the daughter of our Phanocrates. Clitipho: That wall-eyed redhead / with freckles and a hooked nose? I can't, father. / Chremes: Heya, how choosy he is. Looks like he really cares. Sostrata: I'll give you another.",
          "ref": "163 BCE, Publius Terentius Afer, Heauton Timorumenos 1062",
          "text": "Sō: gnāte mī, ego pol tibi dabō illam lepidam, quam tū facile amēs, / fīliam Phānocratae nostrī. Cl.: rūfamne illam virginem, / caesiam, sparsō ōre, aduncō nāsō? nōn possum, pater. / Ch.: heia ut ēlegāns est! crēdās animum ibi esse. Sō.: aliam dabō.",
          "translation": "Sostrata: My son, I'll give you that wonderful one, you'll love her easily, she's the daughter of our Phanocrates. Clitipho: That wall-eyed redhead / with freckles and a hooked nose? I can't, father. / Chremes: Heya, how choosy he is. Looks like he really cares. Sostrata: I'll give you another."
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          "english": "So are you then as a physicist, and this means explorer and chaser of nature, not ashamed to seek witness of truth from minds imbued with custom? If you do that, you can then say that Jupiter is always bearded, that Apollo never is, that Minerva has cesious eyes, that Neptune has cerulean.",
          "ref": "45 BCE, Cicero, De Natura Deorum 1.83.6",
          "text": "Nōn pudet igitur physicum id est speculātōrem vēnātōremque nātūrae ab animīs cōnsuētūdine inbūtīs petere testimōnium vēritātis? istō enim modō dīcere licēbit Iovem semper barbātum, Apollinem semper inberbem, caesiōs oculōs Minervae, caeruleōs esse Neptūnī.",
          "translation": "So are you then as a physicist, and this means explorer and chaser of nature, not ashamed to seek witness of truth from minds imbued with custom? If you do that, you can then say that Jupiter is always bearded, that Apollo never is, that Minerva has cesious eyes, that Neptune has cerulean."
        },
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          "ref": "c. 125 CE – c. 180 CE, Aulus Gellius, Attic Nights 2.26.19.1",
          "roman": "Then Fronto, to Favorinus: … And our ancients, they have called her 'caesia' who the Greeks call γλαυκῶπις, which is as Nigidius says, 'from heaven's hue, as if \"caelia.\"'",
          "text": "Tum Frontō ad Fauōrīnum: … Nostrīs autem ueteribus \"caesia\" dicta est, quae ā Graecīs γλαυκῶπις, ut Nigidius ait, \"dē colōre caelī quasi caelia.\""
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      "ipa": "[ˈt͡ʃɛː.s̬i.us]",
      "note": "modern Italianate Ecclesiastical"
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      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "ablative",
        "masculine",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "caesiā",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "ablative",
        "feminine",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "caesiō",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "ablative",
        "neuter",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "caesiīs",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "ablative",
        "feminine",
        "masculine",
        "neuter",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "caesie",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "masculine",
        "singular",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "caesia",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "singular",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "caesium",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "neuter",
        "singular",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "caesiī",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "masculine",
        "plural",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "caesiae",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "plural",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "caesia",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "neuter",
        "plural",
        "vocative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "caesius"
      },
      "expansion": "caesius (feminine caesia, neuter caesium); first/second-declension adjective",
      "name": "la-adj"
    }
  ],
  "inflection_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "caesius"
      },
      "name": "la-adecl"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Latin",
  "lang_code": "la",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Latin terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "From that as well, those nations who are nourished under the North Star, [are] of great bodies, shining white complexions, the quality of their hair is straight and reddish, they have blue eyes …",
          "ref": "c. 80 BCE – 15 BCE, Vitruvius, On Architecture 6.1.3.10",
          "text": "… ex eō quoque, sub septentriōnibus nūtriuntur gentēs, inmānibus corporibus, candidīs colōribus, dīrēctō capillō et rūfō, oculīs caesiīs …",
          "translation": "From that as well, those nations who are nourished under the North Star, [are] of great bodies, shining white complexions, the quality of their hair is straight and reddish, they have blue eyes …"
        },
        {
          "english": "Other than that, some eyes are far-sighted, some eyes are near-sighted. Many eyes can only see in daylight and can't see things well at night nor after a sunset. Some eyes are weaker in daylight, but in the nighttime they see better than all the rest. I have said enough about doubled pupils or faults with eyesight. Blue eyes are brighter in the dark. They say that the Caesar Tiberius, and no other born mortal, had such a natural condition, that whenever he was roused at night, he could see everything in the dark for a while just as if it were in bright light, with the darkness then gradually drawing itself around him. (NB: Pliny describes sight according to the extramission theory of vision, a widespread historical Greek theory that the eyes project light, which enables sight; so he describes blue eyes as emitting more light and therefore seeing better in the dark).",
          "ref": "23 CE – 79 CE, Pliny the Elder, Natural History 11.142.5",
          "text": "Praetereā aliī (oculī) contuentur longinqua, aliī nisi prope admōta nōn cernunt. multōrum vīsus fulgōre sōlis cōnstat, nūbilō diē nōn cernentium nec post occāsūs. aliī interdiū hebetiōrēs, noctū praeter cēterōs cernunt. dē geminīs pūpillīs aut quibus noxiī vīsūs essent satis dīximus. caesiī in tenebrīs clāriōrēs. ferunt Ti. Caesarī, nec aliī genitōrum mortālium, fuisse nātūram expergēfactus noctū paulīsper haut aliō modō quam lūce clārā contuērētur omnia, paulātim tenebrīs sēsē obdūcentibus.",
          "translation": "Other than that, some eyes are far-sighted, some eyes are near-sighted. Many eyes can only see in daylight and can't see things well at night nor after a sunset. Some eyes are weaker in daylight, but in the nighttime they see better than all the rest. I have said enough about doubled pupils or faults with eyesight. Blue eyes are brighter in the dark. They say that the Caesar Tiberius, and no other born mortal, had such a natural condition, that whenever he was roused at night, he could see everything in the dark for a while just as if it were in bright light, with the darkness then gradually drawing itself around him. (NB: Pliny describes sight according to the extramission theory of vision, a widespread historical Greek theory that the eyes project light, which enables sight; so he describes blue eyes as emitting more light and therefore seeing better in the dark)."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "blue"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "blue",
          "blue"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(of the eyes) blue"
      ],
      "raw_tags": [
        "of the eyes"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "adjective",
        "declension-1",
        "declension-2"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "Latin derogatory terms",
        "Latin terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "Sostrata: My son, I'll give you that wonderful one, you'll love her easily, she's the daughter of our Phanocrates. Clitipho: That wall-eyed redhead / with freckles and a hooked nose? I can't, father. / Chremes: Heya, how choosy he is. Looks like he really cares. Sostrata: I'll give you another.",
          "ref": "163 BCE, Publius Terentius Afer, Heauton Timorumenos 1062",
          "text": "Sō: gnāte mī, ego pol tibi dabō illam lepidam, quam tū facile amēs, / fīliam Phānocratae nostrī. Cl.: rūfamne illam virginem, / caesiam, sparsō ōre, aduncō nāsō? nōn possum, pater. / Ch.: heia ut ēlegāns est! crēdās animum ibi esse. Sō.: aliam dabō.",
          "translation": "Sostrata: My son, I'll give you that wonderful one, you'll love her easily, she's the daughter of our Phanocrates. Clitipho: That wall-eyed redhead / with freckles and a hooked nose? I can't, father. / Chremes: Heya, how choosy he is. Looks like he really cares. Sostrata: I'll give you another."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "blue-eyed"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "derogatory",
          "derogatory"
        ],
        [
          "blue-eyed",
          "blue-eyed"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(of a person, sometimes derogatory) blue-eyed"
      ],
      "raw_tags": [
        "of a person"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "adjective",
        "declension-1",
        "declension-2",
        "derogatory",
        "sometimes"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "Latin terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "So are you then as a physicist, and this means explorer and chaser of nature, not ashamed to seek witness of truth from minds imbued with custom? If you do that, you can then say that Jupiter is always bearded, that Apollo never is, that Minerva has cesious eyes, that Neptune has cerulean.",
          "ref": "45 BCE, Cicero, De Natura Deorum 1.83.6",
          "text": "Nōn pudet igitur physicum id est speculātōrem vēnātōremque nātūrae ab animīs cōnsuētūdine inbūtīs petere testimōnium vēritātis? istō enim modō dīcere licēbit Iovem semper barbātum, Apollinem semper inberbem, caesiōs oculōs Minervae, caeruleōs esse Neptūnī.",
          "translation": "So are you then as a physicist, and this means explorer and chaser of nature, not ashamed to seek witness of truth from minds imbued with custom? If you do that, you can then say that Jupiter is always bearded, that Apollo never is, that Minerva has cesious eyes, that Neptune has cerulean."
        },
        {
          "ref": "c. 125 CE – c. 180 CE, Aulus Gellius, Attic Nights 2.26.19.1",
          "roman": "Then Fronto, to Favorinus: … And our ancients, they have called her 'caesia' who the Greeks call γλαυκῶπις, which is as Nigidius says, 'from heaven's hue, as if \"caelia.\"'",
          "text": "Tum Frontō ad Fauōrīnum: … Nostrīs autem ueteribus \"caesia\" dicta est, quae ā Graecīs γλαυκῶπις, ut Nigidius ait, \"dē colōre caelī quasi caelia.\""
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "customary translation of γλαυκῶπις (glaukôpis); as well as denoting the associated eye color"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "γλαυκῶπις",
          "γλαυκῶπις#Ancient_Greek"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "adjective",
        "declension-1",
        "declension-2"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "[ˈkae̯.si.ʊs]",
      "tags": [
        "Classical-Latin"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[ˈt͡ʃɛː.s̬i.us]",
      "note": "modern Italianate Ecclesiastical"
    }
  ],
  "word": "caesius"
}

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