cerussa

== Latin == === Alternative forms === cerusa === Etymology === Uncertain, but perhaps from cera (“wax”) + -issa (“-esse”). === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [keːˈrʊs.sa] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [t͡ʃeˈrus.sa] === Noun === cērussa f (genitive cērussae); first declension white lead, ceruse (particularly as used by women to whiten their skin.) ==== Declension ==== First-declension noun. ==== Synonyms ==== abarath (Medieval) ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Descendants ==== French: céruse English: ceruse, cerussite → Hungarian: ceruza → Slovak: ceruza Spanish: cerusa === 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, 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