different between cereous vs cereus

English

Etymology

From Latin c?reus, from c?ra (“wax”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?s???i?s/
• Homophone: serious

Adjective

cereous (comparative more cereous, superlative most cereous)

1. (obsolete) waxen; like wax
   • 1654, Edmund Gayton, Pleasant notes upon Don Quixot

     at night he [the bee] stores up his dayes gatherings, and what is worth his observation, goes into his cereous Tables, and what is not, pasles away at supper for Table-talke

Anagrams

• e-course

English

Wikispecies

Etymology

From the genus name. Doublet of serge.

Noun

cereus (plural cereuses)

1. Any of the genus Cereus of plants of the cactus family, natives to the Americas, from California to Chile.

Anagrams

• Creuse, Rescue, ceruse, cursee, recuse, rescue, secuer, secure

Latin

Etymology 1

From c?ra (“wax”).

Adjective

c?reus (feminine c?rea, neuter c?reum); first/second-declension adjective

1. of wax, waxen
2. of the colour of wax
3. of the properties of wax; soft, pliant
4. (figuratively) easily moved, swayed or persuaded

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

Derived terms

• c?reolus

Descendants

Etymology 2

Substantive from c?reus f?nis (“waxen cord”).

Noun

c?reus m (genitive c?re?); second declension

1. a wax taper or light, particularly those that were brought by clients to their patrons as presents at the time of the Saturnalia

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Descendants

See also

References

• cereus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• cereus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• cereus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• cereus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• cereus in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers