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flavus

From Proto-Italic *flāwos, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰl̥h₁wós, from *bʰleh₁- (“yellow, blue”) (which may be related to *bʰel- (“light, bright”, whence Russian бе́лый (bélyj), Sanskrit भर्ग (bharga), English blue) + *-wós (whence Latin -vus). Cognate with Proto-Celtic *blāwos (“yellow”) and Proto-Germanic *blēwaz (“blue”).^[1]

flāvus (feminine flāva, neuter flāvum, comparative flāvior, superlative flāvissimus); first/second-declension adjective

	masculine	feminine	neuter	masculine	feminine	neuter
	singular			plural
nominative	flāvus	flāva	flāvum	flāvī	flāvae	flāva
genitive	flāvī	flāvae	flāvī	flāvōrum	flāvārum	flāvōrum
dative	flāvō	flāvae	flāvō	flāvīs
accusative	flāvum	flāvam	flāvum	flāvōs	flāvās	flāva
ablative	flāvō	flāvā	flāvō	flāvīs
vocative	flāve	flāva	flāvum	flāvī	flāvae	flāva

Colors in Latin · colōrēs (layout · text)
albus, candidus, subalbus, niveus, cēreus, marmoreus, eburneus, cānus, blancus (ML.)	glaucus, rāvus, pullus, cinereus, cinerāceus, plumbeus, grīseus (ML. or NL.)	niger, āter, piceus, furvus
ruber, rūbidus, rūfus, rubicundus, russus, rubrīcus, pūniceus, murrinus, mulleus; cocceus, coccīnus, badius	rutilus, armeniacus, aurantius, aurantiacus; fuscus, suffuscus, colōrius, cervīnus, spādīx, castaneus, aquilus, fulvus, brunneus (ML.)	flāvus, sufflāvus, flāvidus, fulvus, lūteus, gilvus, helvus, croceus, pallidus, blondinus (ML.)
galbus, galbinus, lūridus	viridis	prasinus
cȳaneus	caeruleus, azurīnus (ML.), caesius, blāvus (LL.)	glaucus; līvidus; venetus
violāceus, ianthinus, balaustīnus (NL.)	ostrīnus, amethystīnus	purpureus, ātropurpureus, roseus, rosāceus

^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “flāvus”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 225

“flavus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“flavus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
flavus 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)
flavus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
“flavus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
“flavus”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray