Dictionary

cinereous en · ADJ

Pronunciation

• /sɪˈnɪəɹi.əs/

Etymology

Latin cinereus, from cinis, cineris (“ashes”).

Meanings

1. Of an ash-gray colour.
   • With a bill two inches and a half long , very ſlender , and a little recurvated : head , and upper part of neck , cinereous , with dusky lines : over each eye a white line 1784, Thomas Pennant, Arctic Zoology:
   • Wings tailed, white, with a brown border; beneath varied with ferruginous and yellow, the lower ones with two cinereous streaks. 1819, Abraham Rees, The Cyclopædia: Or, Universal Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and Literature, Volume 26:
   • Coluber cinereus, the cinereous viper; a native cf South America and India; of a cinereous grey colour; the abdomen white, angulated ; the scales of the tail ferruginous at the edges. 1810, Encyclopaedia Londinensis, or, Universal dictionary of arts, sciences, and literature, Volume 4:
   • […] breast and front of the neck cinereous brown; belly, vent, and under tail-coverts, pure white […] 2014, Leonard Jenyns, A Manual of British Vertebrate Animals:
2. Like ashes.
3. Containing ashes.
   • We likewise see by the valuable Work of Andrew Burdon, professor of the Royal French Academy of Painting, that the Antients occasionally used the Amphora form in other parts of the world as both cinereous and lachrymal urns; […] 1802, Maria Guthrie, Matthew Guthrie, A tour performed in the years 1795-6 through the Taurida, or Crimea, the ancient kingdom of Bosphorus, the once-powerful republic of Tauric Cherson, and all the other countries on the north shore of the Euxine, ceded to Russia by the peace of Kainardgi and Jassy, page 439:

Forms

Deriveds

cinereous tit · cinereous tinamou · cinereous bunting · cinereously · cinereous vulture

Synonyms

ashen

Translations (24)

de aschgrau (colour) · es cinéreo (like ashes) · cs popelavý (colour) · hu hamvas (containing ashes) · bg пепелявосив (colour) · hu hamuszerű (like ashes) · pl popielaty (like ashes) · fi tuhkanharmaa (colour) · pt cinéreo (colour) · ro cenușiu (colour) · ca cendrós (colour) · pt cinéreo (like ashes) · fi tuhkapitoinen (containing ashes) · hu hamuszürke (colour) · pl popielaty (colour) · ca cineri (colour) · fi tuhka- (like ashes) · de aschfarben (colour) · hu hamuszín (colour) · bg пепеляв (like ashes) · fi tuhkamainen (like ashes) · id pirau (colour) · ro plin de cenușă (containing ashes) · pl popielaty (containing ashes)