I.similar to ashes, ash-colored: “color,” Col. 2, 2, 16; Scrib. 23; Plin. 37, 10, 68, § 183 sq.: “terra,” id. 35, 16, 54, § 192 uva, id. 14, 3, 4, § 42.—Hence, subst.: cĭnĕrĕum , ĕi, n., a kind of salve, Scrib. Comp. 37; cf.: “collyrium spodiacum a quibusdam cinereum dicitur,” id. ib. 24 init.
cĭnĕrĕus , a, um, adj. cinis,