GREEN Copy link • GREEN 1. Having a color compounded of blue and yellow, viridis (general term): frondens (having leaves, or being out; e.g., of trees): subviridis: e viridi pallens (light green): a reddish green, e viridi rubens (Plin.): acriter viridis: perviridis: *e viridi nigricans (a dark-shaded green): hyalinus (of the color of glass, later only): herbeus: herbaceus (of the color of grass, †): prasinus (garlic-, or yellowish-colored): glaucus (of the color of the sea; poetical thalassinus): psittacinus (of the color of a parrot): recens: vivus (fresh; e.g., turf): gramine vestitus: herbis convestitus (clothed with grass). To become green, virescere: frondescere (to put forth its leaves; of trees): to become green again, revirescere: to be green, virere: frondere (to be in leaf) : Green; opposed to dry (of wood), viridis: humidus (full of sap, moisture; e.g., materia). (The words are found in this connection and order.) viridis atque humidus (e.g., ligna, Caes.). Green (opposed to ripe), crudus: immaturus: acerbus [Vid: UNRIPE]. Recent; e.g., a green wound, crudum (adhuc) vulnus (Cels., Ov.). Inexperienced, homo novus: novitius: novellus (that has only just arrived; Vid: Liv., 41, 5): tiro, or rudis, or (The words are found in this connection and order.) tiro et rudis in aliqua re (a beginner only): peregrinus or hospes, or peregrinus atque hospes in aliqua re (inexperienced; Vid: Cic., De Or., 1, 50, extr.: fateor... et nulla, in re tironem ac rudem, neque peregrinum atque hospitem in agendo esse debere). 2. s. Green co lor, viride (e.g., e viridi pallens): color viridis: bright green, color perviridis. A grassy plain, locus or campus herbidus: terrenum herbidum (Liv., ; of a green before the walls of a city). Green vegetables, viridia, ium, n.; olus, or plur., olera; *brassica viridis (cabbage, Linn.).