sable
sable
adj.
P. and V. μέλᾱς, V. κελαινός, ἐρεμνός, μελάγχῐμος, μελάμπεπλος.
adj.
P. and V. μέλᾱς, V. κελαινός, ἐρεμνός, μελάγχῐμος, μελάμπεπλος.
SABLE
s. The animal *mustela zibellina (Linn.). The ancients seem to have comprehended it under the general term mus silvestris (Vid: Benecke ad Just. 2 2 9).
The skin or fur *pellis zibellina; *pellis muris silvestris. The hunting of sables captura zibellinarum. A dress of sables indumentum ex pellibus zibellinarum consarcinatum (after Ammianus 31 2 5). To be dressed in sables tergis zibellinarum indutum esse.
s. The animal *mustela zibellina (Linn.). The ancients seem to have comprehended it under the general term mus silvestris (Vid: Benecke ad Just. 2 2 9).
The skin or fur *pellis zibellina; *pellis muris silvestris. The hunting of sables captura zibellinarum. A dress of sables indumentum ex pellibus zibellinarum consarcinatum (after Ammianus 31 2 5). To be dressed in sables tergis zibellinarum indutum esse.
adj. pullus: niger: fuscus: ater. [SYN. in BLACK].
sable:
I. A small animal of the weasel family: *mustela zibellina, Linn. *sabellum, sabellinum, Du Cange: (a native of Siberia, little if at all known to the ancients: the only classical equivalent is mus, mūris, c., under which generic name all the weasel family were included: v. Smith's Lat. Dict. s. v.).
II. The skin or fur of the sable: *pellis zibellina: *pellis sabellina, Du Cange: mūrīna pellis, Just. 2, 2: a dress of s.s, *sabellinum indumentum, Du Cange: *indumentum ex pellibus zibellinis consarcinatum (Georges): to be dressed in s.s, *tergis zibellinarum indutum esse (Georges).
I. A small animal of the weasel family: *mustela zibellina, Linn. *sabellum, sabellinum, Du Cange: (a native of Siberia, little if at all known to the ancients: the only classical equivalent is mus, mūris, c., under which generic name all the weasel family were included: v. Smith's Lat. Dict. s. v.).
II. The skin or fur of the sable: *pellis zibellina: *pellis sabellina, Du Cange: mūrīna pellis, Just. 2, 2: a dress of s.s, *sabellinum indumentum, Du Cange: *indumentum ex pellibus zibellinis consarcinatum (Georges): to be dressed in s.s, *tergis zibellinarum indutum esse (Georges).
sable (adj.): from the dark summer-colour of the skin of the sable.
I. Black (in heraldry): dark, sombre (poet.), with specific reference to dress and person, esp. as an epithet of night:
1. caerŭleus (κυάνεος): c. puppis (Charontis), Virg. Aen. 6, 410: c. nox, Stat. S. 1, 6, 85: c. umbra noctis, id. Th. 2, 528.
2. āter, nox atra, Virg. Aen. 1, 89, et pass.: used with caeruleus: stant manibus arae, caeruleis moestae vittis atraque cupresso, id. 3, 63, 4: the sable mantle or vest of night (Spenser, Milton), atra vestis, Stat. Th. 7, 244.
3. nĭger: nigrae silvae, Hor. Od. 1, 21, 7: nigra nox, Ov. Met. 15, 187. Phr.: night, etc., in their sable arms embrace the fleet (Waller), trans. fr. Virg. Aen. 8, 369, nox ruit et fuscis tellurem amplectitur alis: cf.BLACK , DARK .
II. As subs. in pl.: sables = mourning robes (e. g. a suit of sables, Shaksp.): nigra vestis, Juv. 10, 245: pullus ornatus: cf. pullis togis amicti, Inscr.: v.MOURNING .
I. Black (in heraldry): dark, sombre (poet.), with specific reference to dress and person, esp. as an epithet of night:
1. caerŭleus (κυάνεος): c. puppis (Charontis), Virg. Aen. 6, 410: c. nox, Stat. S. 1, 6, 85: c. umbra noctis, id. Th. 2, 528.
2. āter, nox atra, Virg. Aen. 1, 89, et pass.: used with caeruleus: stant manibus arae, caeruleis moestae vittis atraque cupresso, id. 3, 63, 4: the sable mantle or vest of night (Spenser, Milton), atra vestis, Stat. Th. 7, 244.
3. nĭger: nigrae silvae, Hor. Od. 1, 21, 7: nigra nox, Ov. Met. 15, 187. Phr.: night, etc., in their sable arms embrace the fleet (Waller), trans. fr. Virg. Aen. 8, 369, nox ruit et fuscis tellurem amplectitur alis: cf.
II. As subs. in pl.: sables = mourning robes (e. g. a suit of sables, Shaksp.): nigra vestis, Juv. 10, 245: pullus ornatus: cf. pullis togis amicti, Inscr.: v.