Latin

Noun

cērussa f ‎(genitive cērussae); first declension

1. A white-lead or ceruse used by women to make the skin white.

Inflection

First declension.

Derived terms

• cērussātus

Descendants

• English: ceruse, cerussite

References

• cerussa in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• cerussa in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• CERUSSA in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “cerussa”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• cerussa in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers