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“coloring” in Latin
colorcolor (US), colour (UK); shade, hue, tint; pigment; complexiontingōto wet, moisten, dip (in), impregnate (with); to smear; to dip, immerse; to give to drink, treat; to colour, dye, tingeīnficiōto dip, to dunk, to submerge; to color, to dye, to imbue, to stain, to tinge; to corrupt, to poison, to spoil, to taint,nītorto bear or rest upon something, lean on; to be supported by; to rely on; to trust; to be based on; to press forward, advcolōto cultivate the land, till, tend, take care of a field or garden; to inhabit; to frequent, be the guardian of, cherish,ōrnōto furnish, equip, outfit, prepare; to adorn, ornament, decorate; to honor, commend, praisedīcōto say, talk, speak, utter, mention; to declare, state; to tellōrātiōspeech, discourse, language; the power of speech; manner or style of speaking
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
coloring
colores: *colorum ratio: tinctus: infectus: tinctura (manner in which anything is colored): *pigmentorum (colorum) ratio (the art of laying on colors): colorum commissurae et transitus (the blending of the colors in a painting, Plin., 35, 5. 12): a fine or bright color, nitor: a good color, colores boni.
Embellishment (in rhetoric). cultus: ornatus: dicendi, or orationis cultus, or ornatus: dicendi, or orationis, or verborum lumina (any conspicuous rhetorical embellishment or coloring): quasi verborum sententiarumque insigna (with referance to expression and thought): fucus, pigmenta orationis (of ambitious ornaments used with bad taste): to give a narrative a pleasant coloring, narrationem gratia et venere exornare: too much, nimium depingere aliquid.
Plausible character [Vid: COLOR = pretext]: to give one’s faults a false color, vitia sua fucare, colorare.
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for coloring?
- The usual Latin words for “coloring” are color, tingō, īnficiō; also nītor, colō, ōrnō. The right choice depends on the sense; see the distinctions below.
Entry from J. E. Riddle & T. K. Arnold, A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon (rev. C. Anthon, New York: Harper, 1864), digitised by Fergus J. P. Walsh, CC BY-SA 4.0; Latin markup adapted by latindictionary.co.