caesius

Latin > English

caesius caesia -um, -, caesissumus -a -um ADJ :: gray, gray-blue, steel-colored; having gray/gray-blue/steel-colored eyes

Latin > English (Lewis & Short)

caesĭus: a, um, adj. cf. caeruleus,
I bluish gray; very rare, and only of the eyes, cat-eyed: virgo caesia, Ter Heaut. 5, 5, 18; v. Don. in h. l. and Gell. 2, 26, 19: isto modo dicere licebit caesios oculos Minervae, caeruleos esse Neptuni, Cic. N. D. 1, 30, 83 (cf. in Gr. γλαυκῶπις Αθήνη): caesia, Παλλάδιον, has she gray eyes? she is the impersonation of Pallas, * Lucr. 4, 1161: caesius, Ter Hec. 3, 4, 26 (glaucis oculis, quasi felis oculos habens et glaucos, Don.): hunc, judices, dico, rubrum, brevem, incurvum, canum, subcrispum, caesium, Auct. Her. 4, 49, 63: leo, Cat. 45, 7: sub septentrionibus nutriuntur gentes immanibus corporibus oculis caesiis, Vitr. 6, 1.—Sup. caesissimus, acc. to Varr. L. L. 8, § 76 Müll.—Comp. not in use.

Latin > French (Gaffiot 2016)

(1) cæsĭus,¹⁴ a, um, tirant sur le vert : cæsii oculi Cic. Nat. 1, 83, yeux pers, cf. Gell. 2, 26, 19 ; Fest. 273 || virgo cæsia Ter. Haut. 1062, jeune fille aux yeux pers || cæsissimus Varro L. 8, 76.

Latin > German (Georges)

caesius, a, um, I) bläulichgrau, blaugrau, von den Augen, pupillae caesius color, Cels.: caesios oculos Minervae, caeruleos esse Neptuni, Cic.: caesii (oculi) in tenebris clariores, Plin. – II) übtr., blaugrauäugig, katzenäugig, virgo, Ter. u. Lucr.: leo, Catull.: hunc dico canum, subcrispum, caesium, Cornif. rhet. – / Superl. caesissumus angef. bei Varr. LL. 8, 76, wo auch Compar. caesior als ungebr. bezeichnet wird.