cerussa

Latin

Alternative forms

• cerusa

Etymology

Uncertain, but perhaps from cera (“wax”) + -issa (“-esse”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /keːˈrus.sa/, [keːˈrʊs̠ːä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /t͡ʃeˈrus.sa/, [t͡ʃeˈrusːä]

Noun

cērussa f (genitive cērussae); first declension

1. white lead, ceruse (particularly as used by women to whiten their skin.)

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	cērussa	cērussae
Genitive	cērussae	cērussārum
Dative	cērussae	cērussīs
Accusative	cērussam	cērussās
Ablative	cērussā	cērussīs
Vocative	cērussa	cērussae

Synonyms

• abarath (Medieval)

Derived terms

• cērussātus

 

Descendants

• French: céruse
  • English: ceruse, cerussite
• → Hungarian: ceruza
• → Slovak: ceruza
• Spanish: cerusa

References

• “cerussa”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “cerussa”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• cerussa in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• cerussa in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “cerussa”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers