English
flavous
Flavous comes from Latin flavus ‘yellow’.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEflavus‘yellow’
- Englishearliest quotation 1884flavous
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Earlier history uncertain.
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEflavus‘yellow’
- Englishearliest quotation 1884flavous
Earliest quotation: 1884, Henry David Thoreau: “Already there are many flavous colors in the landscape,…”
Every English word from Latin flavus
Today it means
adj yellow
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin flavus / flavous