cerussa
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Latin
Alternative forms
Etymology
Uncertain, but perhaps from cera (“wax”) + -issa (“-esse”).[1]
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /keːˈrus.sa/, [keːˈrʊs̠ːä]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /t͡ʃeˈrus.sa/, [t͡ʃeˈrusːä]
Noun
cērussa f (genitive cērussae); first declension
- white lead, ceruse (particularly as used by women to whiten their skin.)
Declension
First-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | cērussa | cērussae |
Genitive | cērussae | cērussārum |
Dative | cērussae | cērussīs |
Accusative | cērussam | cērussās |
Ablative | cērussā | cērussīs |
Vocative | cērussa | cērussae |
Synonyms
- abarath (Medieval)
Derived terms
Descendants
References
- “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