γλαυκός

Uncertain origin. Barber reconstructs Proto-Indo-European *gleh₂w-ko-, noting that the root only appears in Greek (Homer, Aeschylus),^[1] but Beekes finds an Indo-European origin unlikely.^[2]

γλαυκός • (glaukós) m (feminine γλαυκή, neuter γλαυκόν); first/second declension

1. gleaming, bright
2. blue-green or blue-gray
   • 406 BCE, Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus 700–701:

     Χορός   ... ὃ τᾷδε θάλλει μέγιστα χώρᾳ,
     γλαυκᾶς παιδοτρόφου φύλλον ἐλαίας

     Khorós   ... hò tāîde thállei mégista khṓrāi,
     glaukâs paidotróphou phúllon elaías

     Chorus: [a plant] that flourishes greatly in this land,
     the leaf of the child-nourishing gray olive tree

3. (of an eye color) light blue or gray

• (antonym(s) of “eye color”): αἰγωπός (aigōpós), μέλας (mélas), χαροπός (kharopós)

• Greek: γλαυκός (glafkós)
• → Latin: glaucus
  • → Catalan: glauc
  • → English: glaucous
  • → French: glauque
    • → Romanian: glauc
  • → Italian: glauco
  • → Portuguese: glauco
  • → Romanian: glauc
  • → Spanish: glauco
  • Translingual: See glauc at the Catalogue of Life 

• “γλαυκός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940), A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “γλαυκός”, in Liddell & Scott (1889), An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “γλαυκός”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891), A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• γλαυκός in Bailly, Anatole (1935), Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• γλαυκός in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924), A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• γλαυκός in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2026)
• “γλαυκός”, in Slater, William J. (1969), Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910), English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • blue idem, page 85.
  • gray idem, page 371.