ostrinus

== Latin == === Etymology === From ostrum (“purple”) +‎ -inus. === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ɔsˈtriː.nʊs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [osˈtriː.nus] === Adjective === ostrīnus (feminine ostrīna, neuter ostrīnum); first/second-declension adjective a kind of Tyrian purple, likely the red kind: widely described by the Romans to be a kind of rubeus and rūfus Synonym: purpureus ==== Declension ==== First/second-declension adjective. ==== Related terms ==== ostricolor ==== See also ==== === References === “ostrinus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “ostrinus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.