I.of or belonging to the yellow-weed; hence, in gen., of the color of lutum.
A. Golden-yellow, saffron-yellow, orange-yellow. chrysocolla, Plin. 33, 5, 27, § 91; Varr. ap Non. 549, 22: “pallor,” Hor. Epod. 10, 16: “pal la,” Tib. 1, 7, 46.—Subst.: lūtĕum , i, n, yellow: “color in luteum inclinatus,” towards yellow, Plin. 24, 15, 86, § 136: “color in luteum languescens,” id. 27, 13, 109, § 133.— Esp., the yolk of an egg: “lutea ex ovis quinque columbarum,” Plin. 30, 15, 49, § 141. —
B. Flame-colored, of the veil of a bride (v. flammeus), Luc. 2, 361; cf. Plin. 21, 8, 22, § 46; Cat. 61, 10.—
II. Rose-colored: “rosa ... sese pandit in calyces medio sui stantis conplexa luteos apices,” Plin. 21, 4, 10, § 14: Aurora in roseis fulgebat lutea bigis ( = crocea; cf. κροκόπεπλος, Hom. Il. 8, 1), Verg. A. 7, 26: “me Lutea mane videt pulsis Aurora tenebris,” Ov. M. 7, 703; 13, 579: “Memnonis in roseis lutea mater equis,” id. F. 4, 714; Anthol. Lat. 5, 7, 1.
