glaucous
/ˈɡlɑ.kəs/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 2.12 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "I realised I was the only shopper in that rather eerie place where I moved about fishlike, in a glaucous aquarium […]"
- "[…] inside you could see the wires and cables that ran aft to the rudder and elevators and the cracked and curled and sunblacked leather of the seats and in their tarnished nickel bezels the glass of instrument dials glaucous and clouded from the pumicing of the desert sands."
- "Traveling at sea for the first time is a chance to realize that the ocean is not one ocean. The water changes. The Atlantic that seethes off the eastern U.S. is glaucous and lightless and looks mean. Around Jamaica, though, it’s more like a milky aquamarine, and translucent."
Etymology
From Latin glaucus, from Ancient Greek γλαυκός (glaukós, “blue-green, blue-grey”), 1670s. See Irish glas.
Origin
- Source language: Latin
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈɡlɑ.kəs/
- British English: /ˈɡlɔː.kəs/
Inflected Forms
more glaucous (comparative)
most glaucous (superlative)