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Theme for this week: Colors

croceus, -a, -um (also crocus and crocinus)

Definition: of saffron, yellow, golden, saffron-colored

Sententia: Croceus canis latrabat ut e domo arceret furem tempantem rapere pecuniam domini.

The yellow dog was barking so that he might keep away from the house a thief trying to seize the money of the master.

And another sentence just because:

Laevus agricola veretur ne acera ei moriantur, quia frondes sunt croceae et cadent ad terram (sed equidem nunc est auctumnus, et in vere erint virides iterum).

The foolish farmer fears that the maples to him (i.e. his maples) are dead, because the leaves are yellow and fall to the ground (but indeed now it is autumn, and in the spring they will be green again).

This word is primarily a Vergilian word, having been found in Books 4 and 6 of the Aeneid.