galbinus

== Latin == === Etymology === Unknown, perhaps from galbanum, but the process is morphologically unclear. May be connected to an uncertain bird called galbus or similar, and may be somehow related to the earlier fashion color term mēlinus (“yellow (in women's fashion)”) (from Greek), as they share the relatively rare -inus short ending and the meaning. Unrelated with Proto-Germanic *gelwaz, which is instead related with Latin helvus. Not attested in Republican Latin. === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈɡaɫ.bɪ.nʊs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈɡal.bi.nus] === Adjective === galbinus (feminine galbina, neuter galbinum); first/second-declension adjective (fashion) canary-colored effeminate Synonym: mollis ==== Usage notes ==== In fashion, this color was considered to be feminine in the early Roman Empire. This shade with fewer fashion associations was expressed as lūteus and more poetically as croceus. ==== Declension ==== First/second-declension adjective. ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Descendants ==== Albanian: gjelbër Aromanian: galbin Franco-Provençal: jôno Old French: jalne, jaune French: jaune → Emilian: żâl → Friulian: zâl → Galician: xalde → Istriot: zalo → Italian: giallo → Lombard: jald (giald, zald) → Piedmontese: giaun → Sicilian: giallu, giarnu → Spanish: jalde → Venetan: gialo, zało Walloon: djaene Old Lombard: galdo Romanian: galben, galbin — popular, galbăn — popular→ Vlax Romani: gàlbeno, galbeno ==== See also ==== === Further reading === “galbinus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “galbinus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.