LATIN DICTIONARYLexicon Latīnum
adjectivefirst/second-declension adjective

fulvus

fulvus (feminine fulva, neuter fulvum)
Classical[ˈfʊɫ.wʊs]Ecclesiastical[ˈful.vus]
Mille Verba core vocabulary

Meaning

  1. adjectiveglowing
  2. adjectivepoeticbright brown, orange or golden in color, sometimes green
    aere fuluōbright bronze (no context survives)239 BCE – 169 BCE, Ennius, Annales
    Cedo tuom pedem , lumpīs flāuīs fuluom ut puluerem / manibus īsdem, quibus Vlixī saepe permulsī, abluam, / lassitūdinemque minuam manuom mollitūdine.Give your foot, so that with pale waters I may wash away the bright dirt from it with the same hands with which I have often rubbed Ulysses' feet, and ease the tiredness with my hands' softness.220 BCE – 130 BCE, Pacuvius, Tragedies Niptra

Latīnē defined in Latin in our graded readers

colōre leōnis: flāvus obscūrus.
fulvus -a -um — in Mille Verba, Colōrēs

Declension

singular
formmasculinefeminineneuter
nominativefulvusfulvafulvum
genitivefulvīfulvaefulvī
dativefulvōfulvaefulvō
accusativefulvum
fulvem		fulvam
fulvem		fulvum
ablativefulvōfulvāfulvō
vocativefulvefulvafulvum
plural
formmasculinefeminineneuter
nominativefulvīfulvaefulva
genitivefulvōrumfulvārumfulvōrum
dativefulvīsfulvīsfulvīs
accusativefulvōsfulvāsfulva
ablativefulvīsfulvīsfulvīs
vocativefulvīfulvaefulva

fulvus, a, um, adj. v. fulgeo,
I. deep yellow, reddish yellow, gold-colored, tawny (mostly poet.): corpora leonum, Lucr. 5, 902; cf. Hor. C. 4, 4, 14: tegmen lupae, Verg. A. 1, 275: canis Lacon, Hor. Epod. 6, 5: cassis equinis jubis, Ov. M. 12, 88: boves, Plin. 22, 5, 5, § 9: vitulus, Hor. C. 4, 2, 60: caesaries, Verg. A. 11, 642: arena, id. ib. 12, 741: aurum, id. ib. 7, 279; cf.: subtemen (auri), Sil. 7, 80: cera, Plin. 21, 14, 49, § 83: color vini, id. 14, 9, 11, § 80: sidera, Tib. 2, 1, 88.—Hence, poet. transf.: Olympus, Val. Fl. 7, 158: lumen, Verg. A. 7, 76: nubes, id. ib. 12, 792 (but not in Lucr. 6, 461, where furva is the right reading): aquila, Verg. A. 11, 751; cf.: ales Jovis, id. ib. 12, 247: nuntia Jovis, Cic. poët. Leg. 1, 1, 2: virgae, i. e. withering stalks, Ov. M. 10, 191.—Hence, subst.: fulvum, i, n., reddish-yellow, Sol. 17, 5.

Origins

From a Proto-Indo-European *bʰl̥wós, from *bʰel- (“to shine”) + *-wós (whence -vus). See fulgeō.

Elsewhere
  • Englishfulvous
  • Italianfulvo
  • Portuguesefulvo
  • Spanishfulvo
Ibero-Romance
  • Portuguesefulo
Italo-Romance
  • Sicilianfulinu
  • Sicilianfuleno

In English words that came into English from fulvus

  • fulvousfulvus
  • zoofulvinfulvus
  • fulvidfulvidus
  • fulvicfulvus
  • fulvettafulvus

Quick answers

What does fulvus mean in Latin?
fulvus, a adjective, means “glowing; bright brown, orange or golden in color, sometimes green”.
How do you pronounce fulvus?
In classical Latin, [ˈfʊɫ.wʊs]; in ecclesiastical (church) Latin, [ˈful.vus].
Which English words come from fulvus?
English words that go back to Latin fulvus include fulvous, zoofulvin, fulvic, fulvetta and fulvid.