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glaucous

Meaninggleaming or blue-grey

Common meaning: covered in a pale bluish-grey or whitish bloom

Journey through time

  1. Greekglaukos‘gleaming or blue-grey’source
  2. Latinmeaning shiftsgleaming or blue-grey → blueishglaucus‘blueish’source
  3. Englishmeaning shiftsblueish → covered in a pale bluish-grey or whitish bloomglaucous‘covered in a pale bluish-grey or whitish bloom’ · today

Sources & notes

Meaning: “Meaning” is the sense that emerges from the word’s roots; “Common meaning” is today’s everyday sense. Both written by us.

Pronunciation

  • UK IPA: not available. Respelling: generated.
  • US IPA: not available. Respelling: generated.

Origin: Built on Greek glaukos ‘gleaming or blue-grey’.

Roots

  • glaukos Greek “gleaming or blue-grey”

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