Oxford Latin Dictionary
Glare, Oxford Latin Dictionary, 356.color on page 356
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color is a Latin Noun that primarily means color.
Definitions for color
Wheelock's Latin
Noun
- 1
color
Oxford Latin Dictionary
Noun
- 1
Colour as a property of physical objects, also, a particular colour.
- 2
Colouring matter, pigment. (b) the use of colour (in painting). (c) (fig., as the materials of a writer or orator).
- 3
(spec.) The colour of the skin, esp. of the face, complexion. (b) (as an indication of health or fitness); sui ~oris, healthy-looking. (c) (as a sign of fear, guilt, modesty, etc.). (d) (as a sign of exertion, anger, grief, madness). (e) (as an indication of race or birth). (f) the colour of the hair.
Sentences with color
Latin to English
Ut natura dedit, sic omnis recta figura est: turpis Romano Belgicus ore color.Compare As nature made it, every face is right; Belgian rouge disgraces Roman cheeks.
Regem non faciunt opes, non vestis Tyriae color, non frontis nota regiae, non auro nitidae fores; rex est qui posuit metus et diri mala pectoris.Compare A king neither riches make, nor robe of Tyrian hue, nor crown upon the royal brow, nor doors with gold bright gleaming; a king is he who has laid fear aside and the base longing of an evil heart.
Declension table for color
Cactus2000
| Singular | Plural | |
| Nom. | color | colōrēs |
| Gen. | colōris | colōrum |
| Dat. | colōrī | colōribus |
| Acc. | colōrem | colōrēs |
| Abl. | colōre | colōribus |
Data sources
Notes
- Definitions
- Frederick M. Wheelock, Wheelock's Latin, 6th ed., rev. Richard A. LaFleur (New York, NY: HarperCollins Publishers, 2005): 473.
- P. G. W. Glare, Oxford Latin Dictionary, Vols. 1-8 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1982): 356.
- Word frequencies
- Christopher Francese, "Latin Core Vocabulary," Dickinson College Commentaries, last modified 2014, http://dcc.dickinson.edu.
- Paul B. Diederich, The Frequency of Latin Words and Their Endings, PhD diss., (Columbia University, 1939).
- Louis Delatte, Suzanne Govaerts, Joseph Denooz, and Etienne Evrard, Dictionnaire fréquentiel et index inverse de la langue latine [Frequency Dictionary and Inverse Index of the Latin Language] (Liège, Belgium: Laboratoire d'analyse statistique des langues anciennes de l'Université de Liège [L.A.S.L.A.], 1981): 126.
Bibliography
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Crystal, David. A Dictionary of Linguistics and Phonetics. 6th ed. Oxford, UK: Blackwell Publishing, 2008.
Delatte, Louis, Suzanne Govaerts, Joseph Denooz, and Etienne Evrard. Dictionnaire fréquentiel et index inverse de la langue latine [Frequency Dictionary and Inverse Index of the Latin Language]. Liège, Belgium: Laboratoire d'analyse statistique des langues anciennes de l'Université de Liège (L.A.S.L.A.), 1981.
Diederich, Paul B. The Frequency of Latin Words and Their Endings. PhD diss., Columbia University, 1939.
Francese, Christopher. "Latin Core Vocabulary." Dickinson College Commentaries. Last modified 2014. http://dcc.dickinson.edu/latin-vocabulary-list.
Gildersleeve, Basil L., and Gonzales Lodge. Gildersleeve's Latin Grammar: Third Edition, Revised, and Enlarged. 3rd ed. London, England: Macmillan and Co., 1903.
Glare, Peter G.W. Oxford Latin Dictionary. Vols. 1-8. Oxford, England: Clarendon Press, 1982.
Krüger, Bernd. "Latin Conjugation Tables." Cactus2000. Accessed May 5, 2023. https://latin.cactus2000.de/index.en.php.
Pierson, Nick. "Sound of Text." Accessed October 26, 2019. https://soundoftext.com.
Wheelock, Frederick M. Wheelock's Latin. 6th ed. Revised by Richard A. LaFleur. New York, NY: HarperCollins Publishers, 2005.
Wiktionary Contributors. "Victionarium." Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. Updated March 18, 2019. https://la.wiktionary.org/wiki/Victionarium:Pagina_prima.
Citation
Chicago (17th ed.)
Allo Contributors. "color, colōris (n.) - Latin Word Definition." Allo Latin Dictionary. Last modified . Accessed November 21, 2024. http://ancientlanguages.org/latin/dictionary/color-coloris.
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Wheelock's Latin
Wheelock, Wheelock's Latin, 473.on page 473
