aerius
ἐλαχίστου ἐδέησε διαφθεῖραι → narrowly missed destroying
Latin > English (Lewis & Short)
āĕrĭus: (quadrisyl.), more rar. āĕrĕ-us, a, um, adj., = ἀέριος.
I Pertaining to the air, aërial (a poet. word, which Cic. uses only in higher flights of speech): volucres, Lucr. 5, 825; Cic. Univ. 10: volatus avium atque cantus, id. Top. 20: aërias vias carpere, their way in the air, Ov. A. A. 2, 44: aërias tentăsse domos, the heavens, * Hor. C. 1, 28, 5 al.—Hence aërium mel, because the bee was believed to collect its honey from falling dew, Verg. G. 4, 1. —
II Rising aloft, airy, high.—So esp. of mountains: Alpes, Verg. G. 3, 474; Ov. M. 2, 226: aërio vertice Taurus, Tib. 1, 7, 15 (aetherio, Müll.): cacumen, Cat. 64, 240 al. —Of trees: quercus, Verg. A. 3, 680: ulmus, id. E. 1, 59.—Of other things: arces, Verg. A. 3, 291: (capra) cornibus aëriis, Ov. F. 5, 119.—*
B Aëria spes, airy, i. e. quickly flying away, vain, fleeting, transitory, Arn. 2, p. 86.
Latin > French (Gaffiot 2016)
āĕrĭus,¹¹ a, um (aer),
1 relatif à l’air, aérien : (animantium genus) aerium Cic. Tim. 35, (espèce d’animaux) vivant dans l’air ; aeriæ grues Virg. G. 1, 375, les grues au vol élevé ; aerium mel Virg. G. 4, 1, le miel venu de l’air, du ciel, v. Plin. 11, 12
2 aérien, élevé dans l’air, haut : aeria quercus Virg. En. 3, 680, chêne aérien ; aeriæ Alpes Virg. G. 3, 474, les Alpes qui se perdent dans les airs
3 qui a la couleur de l’air (du ciel), azuré : Tert. Anim. 9.