(adjective) : flāvus, a, um, for flag-vus from FLAG, flagro, burning, light-colored
* Golden yellow, reddish yellow, flaxen-colored, ξανθός (mostly poet.): color,Col. 4, 3, 4: mellis dulci flavoque liquore,Lucr. 1, 938; 4, 13: mella,Mart. 1, 56, 10: aurum,Verg. A. 1, 592: Ceres,id. G. 1, 96; cf. of the same: et te, flava comas, frugum mitissima mater,Ov. M. 6, 118: mare marmore flavo, Enn. ap. Gell. 2, 26 (Ann. v. 377 ed. Vahl.): arva,Verg. G. 1, 316: crines,id. A. 12, 605: coma,Hor. C. 1, 5, 4; cf.: Galanthis flava comas,Ov. M. 9, 307: flavus comarum Curio,Sil. 9, 414: Ganymedes,Hor. C. 4, 4, 4: Phyllis,id. ib. 2, 4, 14: Chloë,id. ib. 3, 9, 19: Tiberis, reddish yellow (from the puzzolan earth on its ground), id. ib. 1, 2, 13; 1, 8, 8; 2, 3, 18: Tiberinus multa flavus harena,Verg. A. 7, 31; Ov. M. 14, 447: Lycormas,id. ib. 2, 245: pudor,blushing,Sen. Hippol. 652: capillus in flavum colorem,Vulg. Lev. 13, 36; 30.— Subst.: an de moneta Caesaris decem flavos, gold pieces (cf. Engl. yellow-boys), Mart. 12, 65, 6.—Comp.: flavior, Boëth. ap. Porphyr. Dial. 2, p. 31.

s. TLL

s. TLL