Serene Ventus Teal

Latin serēnus, clear / unclouded. As a color modifier, serene implies a clear-and-untroubled quality where the hue carries the visual register of cloudless-bright-day atmospheric stability. Sits at the crisp-and-calm end of the grid, parallel to placid and untroubled in usage.

Latin ventus, wind. As a color modifier, ventus implies a Latin-wind-and-Roman-Aeolus-wind quality, the visual register of Roman-Aeolus-and-Anemoi-ventus hand-Latin-wind-and-Roman-Aeolus-wind Roman-Aeolus-and-Anemoi-ventus-and-Boreas-Notus-Eurus-Zephyrus ventus-and-Latin-wind surfaces under Roman-Aeolus-and-Anemoi-ventus-and-Boreas-Notus-Eurus-Zephyrus Aeolian-and-Vergilian-pastoral Roman-wind-light. Sits at the modifier-and-Latin end of the grid, parallel to ignis and unda in usage.

Anas crecca, the small dabbling duck whose male in breeding plumage sports a chestnut head crossed by a glossy green-blue stripe. The color refers to that stripe — the iridescent panel just behind the eye: a saturated, slightly muted blue-green with the optical depth of structural color rather than pigment. Cooler than cypress, warmer than cerulean, with the ornithological specificity of a color named for one feather of one bird.