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prettygoodwordglaucous - adj., pale bluish-gray or greenish-blue; (Bot.) having a powdery or waxy coating that gives a frosted appearance.
As in plums, for that last meaning. Pronounced GLAW-kuhs, borrowed around 1670 from Latin, in turn taken from Greek, where it meant both silvery and gleaming. Remember how Homer calls Athena either gray-eyed or bright-eyed, depending on the translator? That's this word at work. I think all translations should standardize on plum-eyed myself.
---L.
As in plums, for that last meaning. Pronounced GLAW-kuhs, borrowed around 1670 from Latin, in turn taken from Greek, where it meant both silvery and gleaming. Remember how Homer calls Athena either gray-eyed or bright-eyed, depending on the translator? That's this word at work. I think all translations should standardize on plum-eyed myself.
---L.
