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The Latin word for blue is
caeruleus





blue



Translations for blue and their definitions

caeruleus
     1. adj. Having the color of the sky; blue or greenish-blue; cerulean, azure
     2. adj.          Dyed or colored blue
     3. adj.         # (particularly) Colored with woad
     4. adj.          Used as an epithet of sea and river deities or things connected with them
     5. adj.          (of serpents) Glossy greenish-blue
     6. adj.          (of persons) Blue-eyed
     7. adj.          Dark-colored, dusky, gloomy
     8. adj.         # (of , clouds, and shadows)
     9. adj.         # (of things in or associated with the underworld)
     10. adj.          (as a proper name) A spring and aqueduct at Rome
     11. adj. (rare) Of or connected with the sky, celestial


caerulus
     1. adj. alternative form of caeruleus


glaucus
     1. adj. bright, sparkling, gleaming
     2. adj. gray-green, grayish
     3. n. (Mediaeval Latin) a bluish-grey colored fish of uncertain identity, perhaps the derbio


caesius
     1. adj. (of the eyes) bluish-gray, gray-eyed, blue-eyed, cat-eyed
     2. adj. (of the eyes) cutting, sharp


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