cerussa
Latin
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Uncertain, but perhaps from cera (“wax”) + -issa (“-esse”).[1]
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /keːˈrus.sa/, [keːˈrʊs̠ːä]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /t͡ʃeˈrus.sa/, [t͡ʃeˈrusːä]
Noun
[edit]cērussa f (genitive cērussae); first declension
- white lead, ceruse (particularly as used by women to whiten their skin.)
Declension
[edit]First-declension noun.
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | cērussa | cērussae |
| genitive | cērussae | cērussārum |
| dative | cērussae | cērussīs |
| accusative | cērussam | cērussās |
| ablative | cērussā | cērussīs |
| vocative | cērussa | cērussae |
Synonyms
[edit]- abarath (Medieval)
Derived terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]References
[edit]- “cerussa”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “cerussa”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- cerussa in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- cerussa in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “cerussa”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers