“color” in Latin

as property of a body, color (general term., also of the color of a discourse): pigmentum (a color, a paint); a full, deep, or strong color (laid on equally thick), color satur: a weak or thin color, color dilutior: a natural color, color nativus or verus: a fresh or healthy color, color validus; vigor (of the body; also used of the bright color of pearls, Plin..): a person who has a fresh color, coloratus: to have got a fresher or healthier color, coloratiorem factum esse (Col.): to lose one’s color, colorem amittere: colorem remittere: what has lost its color, decolor: to take a color (Vid: To COLOR, v. intr.] : to assume (take) another color, or change its color, colorem alienum accipere: to retain its color, or, the color of anything stands, *colorem servare or retinere: to have much, or a great deal, of color in one’s face, multo sanguine et rubore alicui facies suffusa est: to change color, colorem mutare or immutare: and (poetically) perdere, or color excidit alicui, non manet alicui [Vid: To GROW PALE, To BLUSH]: not in change color, consistere ore (Cic., ad Qu. Fr., 2, 3, 2): constat alicui color et vultus: of rich or rnricgated colors, coloribus variis (☞ Verg., Aen., 4, 701): distin tus vario colore (Ov.): coloratus (colored, general term, especially of a dark-red; e.g., of the Orientals, colorati Seres, Ov., Am., 1, 14, 6). versicolor: without color, sine colore variety of colors, colorum varietas (☞ Cic., Fin., 2, 3, 10): colores varii (Verg., Aen., 4, 701): the shading off of colors, or passing of one color into another, colorum commissurae et transitus (in a painting, Plin.., 35, 5, 12): of one color, unius coloris; unicolor: of two colors, bicolor: of three colors, triplice colore: of various colors, multis or variis coloribus; poetically, multicolor: of the same color, concolor (i. e., of one color; opposed to discolor): ejusdem coloris: eodem colore (of the same color, i. e., which another thing has): to lose its color, decolorem fieri (of stuffs) pallor decolorat aliquid (discolors): evanescere; pallidiorem neri (to fade, of colors and stuffs): colorem mutare (general term): pallescere: expallescere: the loss or changing of color, coloris mutatio: de coloratio: to produce a color [Vid: To COLOR]: of a light color, colore claro: of a whitish color, colore albido: colore claro splendere (Lucr., 5, 1257): a pale or fawn color, leucophaeus (λευκόφαιος, Vitr. and Plin.): of a darkish color, austerus = nigricans: of a reddish color, rubeus: subruber (as blood): subrufus (of chestnut color): subrubicundus; rubicundulus; ruber subalbicans (of a light-reddish color): to be of a light-reddish color, subrubere: of a browitish, etc., color [Vid: the adjectives]: of a chestnut color, badius: spadix (of a horse).

As giving color, means of coloring, pigmentum: color (the latter also IMPROP. with reference to style): to take a color, colorem bibere, ducere: to give to anything a color, colorem inducere alicui rei: the brightness of colors, pigmentorum flos et color (Cic., Brut., 87, 298, where it is improper with reference to style): to paint a crime in very dark colors, crimen atrociter deferre (Tac., Ann., 13, 19, 4): to give a fair color to a foul matter, rei deformi dare colorem (Quint.): honesta praescriptione rem turpem tegere (both = palliate, Vid :): oil-color, pigmentum oleatum (any dyeing material or stuff made with oil): to paint anything with oil-colors, *pigmentum oleatum inducere alicui rei: of the color of oil, colore olei (Plin., 37, 5, 20): colore oleagino (Veg., 3, 17, 1): water-colors, *pigmentum aqua dilutum. A box of water-colors, loculata arcula, ubi diversi sunt colores (☞ Varr. R.R., 2, 17, 4) :λήκυθος (after Cic., Att., 1, 14, 3, a pot containing colors; compare Franz Passow’s Handwörterbuch der griechischen Sprache, sub voce): color-man, pigmentarius.

Complexion: a fine color, color suavis; coloris suavitas; a good color, coloris bonitas: a very good color, color egregius: a deadly pale color, color exsanguis [Vid :, also, COLOR, under the first head].

Pretext, species: imago: simulacrum: sometimes color (Quint.): under the color of, specie, in speciem (opposed to reapse); verbo: verbo et simulatione, opposed to revera, re ipsa: nomine (in order to palliate): per simulationem (sub praetextu or sub obtentu. not to be recommended) [Vid: PRETEXT].

Character (as in a man’s true colors), mores; indoles; indoles animi ingeniique (Liv., 10, 17); natura et mores: mores naturaque: *peculiaris forma atque indoles (the peculiarities of an object, peculiar features or colors): to paint anybody in his true colors, alicujus naturam certia describere signis: perhaps*alicujus vivam or vividum imaginem exprimere: alicujus vitia (or vitia et virtutes, as the case may be) deformare (Rutil., Lup.): imaginem consuetudinis atque vitae alicujus exprimere.

TR., tingere, with anything, aliqua re (by dipping the stuff into a dye): inficere, with anything, aliqua re (to do over, to color with something which does not destroy, but changes, the natural quality of the thing): imbuere aliqua re (to saturate with anything): colorare aliquid: inducere colorem alicui rei (to give a color to anything): fucare (mostly figuratively of coloring with a deceptive dye). ☞ When “to color” is taken in the sense of “producing a color,” tingere is used with the accusative of the color; e.g., caeruleum tingere, to color anything water-blue: to color purple, purpuram tingere [Vid :, also. To DYE]: to color blue, caeruleum efficere colorem: to color anything red, rufare (of a yellowish red; e.g., the hair, capillum): miniare (of a cinnabar color): fucare (of purple): cocco tingere (scarlet): e nigro ratilum capillum reddere, to color dark hair red: to color anything sky-blue, colore caeruleo tingere (the thing so colored is caeruleatus) [Vid: To STAIN]. FIG.,

to palliate, make plausible, rem colorare nomine aliquo (by a pretext, Val. Max., 8, 2, 2): rem involucris tegere et quasi velis obtendere; also velare rem only: to color anything with any excuse, praetendere aliquid alicui rei: rem tegere or occultare aliqua re; rem escusatione alicujus rei tesere (by excuses; Vid: Cic., Lael., 12. 43): rem in alicujus rei simulationem conferre (under a pretexl: Vid: Caes., B.C, 1, 40): to endeavor to color anything with some pretext, velamentum alicui rei quaerere (Sen., De Vit. Beat., 12): rei deformi dare colorem (Caes., B.C., 3, 32; Quint., 3, 8, 44): to endeavor to caver one’s guilt with fine words, splendida verba praetendere culpae suae (Ov., Rem., 240): honesta praescriptione rem turpem tegere: vitia sua fucare. colorare. Colored, coloratus (with a fear color): fucatus (with a deceptive dye). INTR., to color at anything, rubescere: (for shame) erubescere: pudore or rubore suffundi; rubor mihi suffunditur or offunditur. I color at or on account of anything (blush), rubere (Cic., Verr. 2, 76, extr.): to color at one’s own praises, pudore affici ex sua laude.