Kurt's not the only Cerulean Warbler

[wowbright]

verdandil tipped me off to this beautiful bird.

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[verdandil]

And now I am vaguely tempted to make clumsy Kurt/Cerulean Warbler metaphors a la Glee.

Shoo, Merriam-Webster. Colors make such a complexely beautiful puzzle; they vary in so many hues, values and saturation degree, they become hard to define at times - not to mention that it is a subjective experience in itself.

And the OED says ...

[wowbright]

So I just looked it up in the Shorter Oxford English Dictionary, which says (I am paraphrasing a bit because of the abbreviations and my inability to type th International Phonetic Alphabet on LJ):

cerulean - [from Latin caeruleus sky-blue, sea-blue (or sea-green) from caelum sky, heaven] (Of) the colour of the cloudless sky, deep blue, azure.

So the root of the word, caelum, does not support me; but what it came to mean in caeruleus does. And yet, if the OED is describing the current English meaning correctly - well, I am bereft. I need green to be in there, dangit! Maybe I need to go to the full OED and see what it says.

Re: And the OED says ...

[verdandil]

And I shall be in denial until further notice (I conceive cerulean as a rich, nuanced colour, thank you very much, so bye-bye OED).