# color
## English

Picture dictionary :
color
red
orange
yellow
green
blue
purple
pink
brown
black
gray
white :

### Alternative forms

* colour (Commonwealth, Ireland) (see the usage notes below)

### Etymology

From Middle English colour, color, borrowed from Anglo-Norman colur, from Old French colour, color, from Latin color. Doublet of couleur.
Displaced English blee, Middle English blee (“color”), from Old English blēo. Also partially replaced Old English hīew (“color”) and its descendants (English hue), which is less often used in this sense.
The spelling color was popularized in modern American English by Noah Webster, to match the spelling of the word's Latin etymon, and make all American spellings of the derivatives consistent (colorimeter, coloration, colorize, colorless, etc).

### Pronunciation

* (General American) enPR: kŭlʹər, IPA: /ˈkʌl.ɚ/
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* (Received Pronunciation) enPR: kŭlʹə, IPA: /ˈkʌl.ə/
* (Northern England) enPR: ko͝olʹə, IPA: /ˈkʊl.ə/
* (Scotland, Northern Ireland) enPR: kŭlʹər, IPA: /ˈkʌləɹ/
* (Ireland) enPR: ko͝olʹər, IPA: /ˈkʊləɹ/
* Rhymes: -ʌlə(ɹ)
* Homophone: culler
* Hyphenation: col‧or

### Noun

color (countable and uncountable, plural colors) (American spelling, Philippines) (Canadian spelling, rare)
* (uncountable) The spectral composition of visible light.
    Synonym: (archaic) blee
    Humans and birds can perceive color.
* A subset thereof:
** (countable) A particular set of visible spectral compositions, perceived or named as a class.
    Synonyms: hue, (archaic) blee
    Most languages have names for the colors black, white, red, and green.
*** 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter V, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:Here, in the transept and choir, where the service was being held, one was conscious every moment of an increasing brightness; colours glowing vividly beneath the circular chandeliers, and the rows of small lights on the choristers' desks flashed and sparkled in front of the boys' faces, deep linen collars, and red neckbands.
** (uncountable) Hue as opposed to achromatic colors (black, white and grays).
    Synonyms: hue, shade, (archaic) blee
    The accident victim's face was white, drained of all color.
** These hues as used in color television or films, color photographs, etc (as opposed to the shades of grey used in black-and-white television).
    Synonym: color television
    This film is broadcast in color. Most people dream in color, but some dream in black and white.
** (heraldry) Any of the standard dark tinctures used in a coat of arms, including azure, gules, sable, and vert.
    Coordinate terms: metal, stain
* A paint.
    The artist took out her colors and began work on a landscape.
* (uncountable) Human skin tone, especially as an indicator of race or ethnicity.
    Synonyms: complexion, ethnicity, race
    Color has been a sensitive issue in many societies.
* (medicine) Skin color, noted as normal, jaundiced, cyanotic, flush, mottled, pale, or ashen as part of the skin signs assessment.
* A flushed appearance of blood in the face; redness of complexion.
** 1864, Sir Henry Stewart Cunningham, Late Laurels, volumes 1-2, page 117:[…] her very embarrassment wore a graceful air; her high colour had softened down to a warm, delicate tint; and her dress, which looked beautifully new and fresh, was in good taste, and showed her off to advantage.
* (figuratively) Richness of expression; detail or flavour that is likely to generate interest or enjoyment.
    color commentator, color commentary
    There is a great deal of colour in his writing.
    a bit of local color
** 1914 November, Louis Joseph Vance, “An Outsider […]”, in Munsey’s Magazine, volume LIII, number II, New York, N.Y.: The Frank A[ndrew] Munsey Company, […], published 1915, →OCLC, chapter I (Anarchy), page 377, column 2:Three chairs of the steamer type, all maimed, comprised the furniture of this roof-garden, with (by way of local color) on one of the copings a row of four red clay flower-pots filled with sun-baked dust […]
    Could you give me some color with regards to which products made up the mix of revenue for this quarter?
* A standard, flag, or insignia:
** (in the plural) A standard or banner.
    Synonyms: banner, standard
    The loss of their colors destroyed the regiment's morale.
** (in the plural) The flag of a nation or team.
    The colors were raised over the new territory.
*** 1856, “Treaty signed April 18, 1855; ratified April 5, 1856”, in Treaty of friendship and commerce between Great Britain and Siam, Bangkok: J. H. Chandler, page 7:The arrival of the British Consul at Bangkok shall not take place before the ratification of this Treaty, nor until ten vessels owned by British subjects, sailing under British colours and with British papers, shall have entered the port of Bangkok for purposes of trade, subsequent to the signing of this Treaty.
** (in the plural) Gang insignia.
    Both of the perpetrators were wearing colors.
* (in the plural) An award for sporting achievement, particularly within a school or university.
    He was awarded colors for his football.
* (military, in the plural) The morning ceremony of raising the flag.
* (physics) A property of quarks, with three values called red, green, and blue, which they can exchange by passing gluons; color charge.
* (finance, uncountable) A third-order measure of derivative price sensitivity, expressed as the rate of change of gamma with respect to time, or equivalently the rate of change of charm with respect to changes in the underlying asset price.
* (typography) The relative lightness or darkness of a mass of written or printed text on a page. (See type color on Wikipedia.Wikipedia )
* (snooker) Any of the colored balls excluding the reds.
* A front or facade; an ostensible truth actually false; pretext.
** 2011, David Baldacci, The Collectors:At the far end of the continuum, Roger Seagraves collected personal items from people he'd murdered, or assassinated rather, since he'd done it under the color of serving his country.
* An appearance of right or authority; color of law.
    Under color of law, he managed to bilk taxpayers of millions of dollars.
** 1882, The Ohio Law Journal, volume 2, page 396:The only thing which this defendant is accused of doing is that he excluded this boy from the school, and he did it under the color of the statute relating to the subject, and did it because he was a colored boy.
** 1770, “Parliamentary Privilege Act 1770”, in legislation.gov.uk‎:no such action, suit, or any other process or proceeding thereupon shall at any time be impeached, stayed, or delayed by or under colour or pretence of any privilege of Parliament.
* (mining) Gold, particles of gold found when prospecting.
** 2013, Eleanor Catton, The Luminaries, London: Granta, published 2014, →ISBN, page 184:He smelted Wells’s colour before it was valued, and by the time anybody saw it, it had been poured into bars and stamped with the Reserve seal.

#### Usage notes

* The late Anglo-Norman colour, which is the standard UK spelling, has been the usual spelling in Britain since the 14th century and was chosen by Dr. Johnson's Dictionary of the English Language (1755) along with other Anglo-Norman spellings such as favour, honour, etc. The Latin spelling color was occasionally used from the 15th century onward, mainly due to Latin influence; it was lemmatized by Webster's American Dictionary of the English Language (1828), along with favor, honor, etc., and is currently the standard US spelling.
* In Canada, colour is preferred, but color is not unknown; in Australia, -our endings are the standard, although -or endings had some currency in the past and are still sporadically found in some regions. In New Zealand and South Africa, -our endings are the standard.

#### Synonyms

* (measure of derivative price sensitivity): colour, DgammaDtime, gamma decay

#### Hypernyms

* (measure of derivative price sensitivity): Greeks (includes list of coordinate terms)

#### Hyponyms

* accidental color
* bodycolor
* color of law
* deep color
* eye color
* forecolor
* high color
* hypercolor
* local color
* noncolor
* primary color
* prismatic colors
* process color
* pseudocolor
* secondary color
* skin color
* tertiary color
* topcolor
* true color
* true colors
* undercolor
* watercolor
* web color

#### Derived terms

The majority of these terms are either considered alternative forms of, or have alternative forms corresponding to, colour (the Commonwealth and Irish spelling).
* anticolor
* bicolor
* bodycolor
* colorability
* color analyst
* color announcer
* color banding
* color bar
* colorbearer
* colorblind
* color blind
* color-blind
* color blindness
* colorbreed
* colorburst
* colorcast
* color charge
* color-code
* color code
* color coded
* color-coded
* color commentator
* color compass
* color confinement
* color coordinate
* color-coordinate
* color coordinate system
* color coordination
* color depth
* colored
* color fade
* colorfast
* colorfastness
* color field
* color-flavor
* color-flavor locking
* color font
* color force
* colorful
* color grading
* color guard
* coloriferous
* colorification
* Colorify
* colorimeter
* colorimetry
* colorine
* colorisation
* colorise
* coloriser
* colorism
* colorist
* coloristic
* colorization
* colorize
* colorizer
* color killer
* colorless
* color line
* colormaker
* colormaking
* colorman
* color man
* colormap
* color me
* color-octet
* color of authority
* color of law
* color of office
* color of someone's money
* color of title
* colorogenic
* colorologist
* colorology
* coloron
* colorous
* color pencil
* colorphobia
* colorphobic
* color photography
* color pigeon
* color pop
* color-proud
* color proud
* colorpuncture
* color revolution
* color-screw
* color screw
* color separation
* colorsome
* color space
* color story
* color-struck
* color television
* color temperature
* color timing
* color triangle
* color TV
* colortype
* color war
* colorway
* color wheel
* colorwise
* colorwork
* complementary color
* discolor
* discoloration
* duocolor
* false-color
* Finlaycolor
* flame-color
* flesh-colored
* flying colors
* forecolor
* four color
* four color theorem
* full color
* give color to
* grapheme-color
* haircolor
* horse of a different color
* hyperbolic color
* hypercolor
* in color
* in flying colors
* in living color
* intercolor
* lend color to
* monocolor
* multicolor
* multicolored
* multicolors
* noncolor
* of color
* off-color
* pair of colors
* pentacolor
* person of color
* play of color
* poster color
* prismatic colors
* pseudocolor
* quadricolor
* quincolor
* rainbow color
* rainbow-colored
* real-color
* show one's true colors
* spot color
* sulfur-color
* Technicolor
* technicolored
* The Color Purple
* tone color
* topcolor
* tricolor
* Tricolor
* troop the color
* true-color
* true colors
* turn one's color
* type color
* uncolor
* undercolor
* unicolor
* unicolored
* watercolor
* wax-color
* what color is the sun in your world
* what color is your Bugatti
* with flying colors

#### Translations

Abkhaz: аԥштәы (apŝtʷʼə)
Afrikaans: kleur (af)
Albanian: ngjyrë (sq) f, larë (sq) f
Amharic: ቀለም (ḳäläm)
Arabic: لَوْن (ar) m (lawn)
Chadian Arabic: لون m (lōn)
Egyptian Arabic: لون m (lōn), ألوان f pl (ʔalwān), ألوانات f pl (ʔalwanāt) (low-class)
Gulf Arabic: لون (lon), رنق (rəng)
Hijazi Arabic: لون m (lōn)
Moroccan Arabic: لون m (lūn)
Aragonese: color f
Archi: ранг (rang)
Armenian: գույն (hy) (guyn)
Aromanian: boie f, rengã f
Assamese: ৰং (roṅ), বৰণ (boron)
Asturian: color (ast) f
Aymara: sami (ay)
Azerbaijani: rəng (az)
Bashkir: төҫ (töś)
Basque: kolore
Belarusian: ко́лер (be) m (kóljer), фа́рба f (fárba), хва́рба f (xvárba), ба́рва f (bárva)
Bengali: রঙ (bn) (roṅ), রং (bn) (roṅ), বর্ণ (bn) (borno)
Bhojpuri: रंग (raṅg)
Binukid: babelek
Bislama: kala
Breton: liv (br) m
Bulgarian: цвят (bg) m (cvjat)
Burmese: အရောင် (my) (a.raung)
Buryat: үнгэ (ünge)
Carpathian Rusyn: фа́рба f (fárba)
Catalan: color (ca) m or f
Cebuano: kolor
Central Dusun: warana
Chechen: бос (bos)
Cherokee: ᏗᎧᏃᏗ (dikanodi)
Chickasaw: kala'
Chinese:
Cantonese: 色 (sik$^1$), 顏色 / 颜色 (ngaan$^4$ sik$^1$)
Dungan: янсый (i͡ansɨy)
Eastern Min: 色 (sáik), 顏色 / 颜色 (ngàng-sáik)
Hakka: 色 (set), 顏色 / 颜色 (ngân-set)
Hokkien: 色 (siak / sek), 顏色 / 颜色 (gân-siak / gân-sek)
Jin: 顏色 / 颜色 (ie$^1$ sah$^4$)
Mandarin: 色 (zh) (sè), 顏色 / 颜色 (zh) (yánsè)
Northern Min: 色 (să̤), 顏色 / 颜色 (ngǎing-să̤)
Wu: 色, 顏色 / 颜色
Chukchi: пэран (pėran)
Chuvash: тӗс (tĕs)
Coptic: ⲁⲟⲩⲁⲛ m (aouan) (Bohairic), ⲁⲃⲁⲛ (ɑwɑn) (Bohairic), ⲁⲩⲁⲛ m (auan) (Sahidic)
Cornish: liw
Crimean Tatar: renk, tüs
Czech: barva (cs) f
Dalmatian: colaur m
Danish: farve (da) c
Daur: jusu
Dutch: kleur (nl) f
Egyptian: (jwn)
Erzya: тюс (ťus), чачо (čačo)
Esperanto: koloro
Estonian: värvus (et), värv (et)
Extremaduran: colol
Faroese: litur m
Finnish: väri (fi)
French: couleur (fr) f
Friulian: colôr m
Galician: cor (gl) f, color (gl) f
Georgian: ფერი (ka) (peri)
German: Farbe (de) f
Greek: χρώμα (el) n (chróma)
Ancient: χρῶμα n (khrôma), χρώς m (khrṓs)
Greenlandic: qalipaat (kl)
Guaraní: sa'y
Haitian Creole: koulè
Hausa: launi
Hawaiian: waihoʻoluʻu
Hebrew: צֶבַע (he) m (tséva)
Hindi: रंग (hi) m (raṅg)
Hungarian: szín (hu)
Hunsrik: Forreb f
Icelandic: litur (is) m
Ido: koloro (io)
Indonesian: warna (id)
Ingrian: karva, kuva
Ingush: бос (bos)
Irish: dath (ga) m
Italian: colore (it) m
Japanese: 色 (ja) (いろ, iro), 色彩 (ja) (しきさい, shikisai)
Jarai: mâo
Javanese: werna (jv), warni, rupa (jv)
Kalmyk: өңг (öñg)
Kannada: ಬಣ್ಣ (kn) (baṇṇa)
Kapampangan: kule, diua
Karachay-Balkar: бет (bet) , бояу (boyau)
Kashubian: farwa f
Kazakh: түс (kk) (tüs), реңк (reñk), рең (reñ)
Khakas: ӧң
Khmer: ពណ៌ (km) (pɔə)
Kongo: langi
Konkani: बण्ण (baṇṇa)
Korean: 색깔 (ko) (saekkkal), 색(色) (ko) (saek)
Kumyk: тюс (tüs) ,ренк (renk), бояв (boyaw)
Kurdish:
Central Kurdish: ڕەنگ (ckb) (reng)
Northern Kurdish: reng (ku) m
Kyrgyz: түс (ky) (tüs) ,өң (ky) (öŋ)
Ladin: corú m, curú m, culour m, culëur m, color m, culòur m
Lao: ສີ (lo) (sī)
Latgalian: nūdora f, kruosa f, spolva f
Latin: color (la) m
Latvian: krāsa (lv) f
Lezgi: ранг (rang)
Ligurian: cô
Lingala: lángi f
Lithuanian: spalva (lt) f
Low German:
German Low German: Farv (nds); farv, klöör (nds)
Luxembourgish: Faarf (lb) f, Fuarf f
Macedonian: бо́ја f (bója)
Maguindanao: warna
Malagasy: volo (mg), loko (mg)
Malay: warna (ms), rona (ms)
Malayalam: വർണ്ണരാജി (vaṟṇṇarāji)
Maltese: kulur m, lewn m
Manchu: ᠪᠣᠴᠣ (boco)
Manx: daah m
Maori: tae, mura, kara
Maranao: warna
Marathi: रंग m (raṅga)
Mari:
Eastern Mari: тӱс (tüs)
Mauritian Creole: kouler
Middle Persian: 𐭫𐭭𐭢 (rang)
Moksha: тюс (ťus)
Mongolian:
Cyrillic: өнгө (mn) (öngö), будаг (mn) (budag)
Mongolian: ᠥᠩᠭᠡ (öngge), ᠪᠤᠳᠤᠭ (budug)
Nanai: бойко (bojko)
Navajo: nidaashchʼąąʼígíí
Neapolitan: culore m
Nepali: रङ्ग (raṅga)
Nivkh: вал (val)
Nogai: туьс (tüs)
Norman: couleu m (Jersey), couleur m (Guernsey), couoleu m (continental Normandy)
Norwegian:
Bokmål: farge (no) m
Nynorsk: farge m or f
Occitan: color (oc) f
Odia: ରଙ୍ଗ (or) (raṅga)
Old Church Slavonic:
Cyrillic: шаръ m (šarŭ)
Old English: blēo n, hīew n
Old Javanese: warṇṇa
Old Norse: litr m
Old Occitan: color m
Oromo: halluu
Ossetian: хуыз (x°yz)
Ottoman Turkish: رنگ (reng), بویا (boya), لون (levn), فام (fâm), الوان pl (elvân)
Paiwan: quljaw
Pannonian Rusyn: фарба f (farba)
Pashto: رنګ m (rang)
Persian:
Dari: رَنْگ (rang), گُون (gūn)
Iranian Persian: رَنْگ (rang), گون (fa) (gun)
Polabian: farb’ă f
Polish: kolor (pl) m inan, barwa (pl) f
Portuguese: cor (pt) f
Punjabi:
Gurmukhi: ਰੰਗ m (raṅg)
Shahmukhi: رَنْگ m (rang)
Quechua: llimphi
Romanian: culoare (ro) f
Romansch: colur m, calur m, calour m, culur m
Russian: цвет (ru) m (cvet), ко́лер (ru) m (kóler) (colloquial or special)
Sanskrit: रङ्ग (sa) m (raṅga)
Santali: ᱵᱳᱨᱳᱱ (boron)
Sardinian: cabori m, caori m, colore m, colori m
Saterland Frisian: Faawe
Scottish Gaelic: dath m
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: бо̀ја f, фа̑рба f
Roman: bòja (sh) f, fȃrba (sh) f
Shor: ӧң (öň)
Sicilian: culuri (scn) m
Silesian: farba f
Sinhalese: වර්ණ (si) (warṇa)
Skolt Sami: eu´nn
Slovak: farba (sk) f
Slovene: barva (sl) f
Somali: midab (so)
Sorbian:
Lower Sorbian: barwa f
Upper Sorbian: barba f
Southern Altai: ӧҥ (öŋ)
Spanish: color (es) m
Swahili: michezo (sw), rangi (sw), launi class n
Swazi: bâla
Swedish: färg (sv) c
Sylheti: ꠞꠋ (roṅ)
Tabasaran: ранг (rang)
Tagalog: kulay (tl)
Tahitian: pēni
Tajik: ранг (tg) (rang)
Talysh: ranq
Tamil: நிறம் (ta) (niṟam), வண்ணம் (ta) (vaṇṇam)
Tat: rang
Tatar: төс (tt) (tös)
Telugu: రంగు (te) (raṅgu), వర్ణము (te) (varṇamu)
Thai: สี (th) (sǐi)
Tibetan: ཚོས་གཞི (tshos gzhi), ཚོན་མདོག (tshon mdog), ཁ་དོག (kha dog)
Tok Pisin: kala
Turkish: renk (tr), ıl, tüs
Turkmen: reňk
Tuvan: өң (öñ)
Udmurt: буёл (bujol)
Ukrainian: ко́лір (uk) m (kólir), фа́рба f (fárba), ба́рва (uk) f (bárva)
Urdu: رَنْگ m (raṅg)
Uyghur: رەڭ (reng)
Uzbek: rang (uz), tus (uz)
Venetan: cołor m, color m
Vietnamese: màu (vi), màu sắc (vi)
Vilamovian: förf f
Volapük: köl (vo)
Welsh: lliw (cy) f
West Frisian: kleur (fy)
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Yagnobi: ранг (rang)
Yakan: ulanna'
Yakut: өҥ (öñ)
Yiddish: קאָליר (kolir), פֿאַרב (yi) (farb)
Zazaki: reng (diq)
Zhuang: saek :
Afrikaans: kleur (af)
American Sign Language: 5@Chin-PalmBack Wiggle
Arabic: لَوْن (ar) m (lawn)
Armenian: գույն (hy) (guyn)
Azerbaijani: rəng (az)
Bashkir: төҫ (töś)
Belarusian: ко́лер (be) m (kóljer)
Bulgarian: цвят (bg) m (cvjat)
Catalan: color (ca) m or f
Chinese:
Cantonese: 顏色 / 颜色 (ngaan$^4$ sik$^1$)
Mandarin: 色 (zh) (sè), 顏色 / 颜色 (zh) (yánsè)
Czech: barva (cs) f
Danish: farve (da) c
Dutch: kleur (nl) f
Egyptian: (jwn m)
Estonian: värv (et)
Finnish: väri (fi)
French: couleur (fr) f
Georgian: ფერი (ka) (peri)
German: Farbe (de) f
Greek: χρώμα (el) n (chróma)
Greenlandic: qalipaat (kl)
Haitian Creole: koulè
Hebrew: צֶבַע (he) m (tséva)
Hindi: रंग (hi) m (raṅg)
Hungarian: szín (hu)
Icelandic: litur (is) m
Irish: dath (ga) m
Japanese: 色 (ja) (いろ, iro), 色彩 (ja) (しきさい, shikisai)
Kurdish:
Central Kurdish: ڕەنگ (ckb) (reng)
Louisiana Creole French: koulær, koulè, koulèr
Low German:
German Low German: farv, klöör (nds)
Luxembourgish: Faarf (lb) f, Fuarf f
Malay: warna (ms), rona (ms)
Malayalam: നിറം (ml) (niṟaṁ), വർണ്ണം (vaṟṇṇaṁ)
Norwegian:
Bokmål: farge (no) m
Nynorsk: farge m or f
Old English: blēo n, hīew n
Ottoman Turkish: رنگ (reng), بویا (boya), لون (levn), فام (fâm), الوان pl (elvân)
Persian:
Dari: رَنْگ (rang)
Iranian Persian: رَنْگ (rang)
Polish: barwa (pl) f, kolor (pl) m inan
Portuguese: cor (pt) f
Romanian: culoare (ro) f
Russian: цвет (ru) m (cvet)
Sorbian:
Lower Sorbian: barwa f
Upper Sorbian: barba f
Spanish: color (es) m
Swedish: färg (sv) c
Ukrainian: ко́лір (uk) m (kólir)
Vietnamese: màu (vi), * Vietnamese: sắc (vi)
Volapük: köl (vo)
White Hmong: xim :
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### Adjective

color (not comparable) (American spelling)
* Conveying color, as opposed to shades of gray.
    Color television and movies were considered a great improvement over black and white.
** 1977, John Cheever, Falconer (A Borzoi Book), New York, N.Y.: Alfred A[braham] Knopf, →ISBN, page 209:I took my TV over on the first trip. I got a beauty. It's four years old, color, but when I had a little snow and asked the repairman to come in, he told me never, never turn this set in for a new one.

#### Translations
### Verb

color (third-person singular simple present colors, present participle coloring, simple past and past participle colored) (American spelling)
* (transitive) To give something color.
    Synonyms: dye, paint, stain, shade, tinge, tint
    We could color the walls red.
** (transitive) To cause (a pipe, especially a meerschaum) to take on a brown or black color, by smoking.
* (intransitive) To apply colors to the areas within the boundaries of a line drawing using colored markers or crayons.
    Synonym: color in
    My kindergartener loves to color.
* (of a person or their face) To become red through increased blood flow.
    Synonym: blush
    Her face colored as she realized her mistake.
* To affect without completely changing.
    Synonyms: affect, influence
    That interpretation certainly colors my perception of the book.
* (informal) To attribute a quality to; to portray (as).
    Synonym: call
    Color me confused.
    They tried to colour the industrial unrest as a merely local matter.
* (mathematics, graph theory) To assign colors to the vertices of a graph (or the regions of a map) so that no two vertices connected by an edge (regions sharing a border) have the same color.
    Can this graph be 2-colored?
    You can color any map with four colors.

#### Antonyms

* decolor

#### Hyponyms

* color by number
* color by numbers
* color in
* color inside the lines
* color outside the lines
* color up
* discolor
* miscolor
* overcolor
* precolor
* recolor

#### Derived terms

* colorate

#### Related terms

* colorable
* colorably
* coloration
* colorer

#### Translations

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### See also

* tincture
Colors/Colours in English (layout · text) :
| red | orange | yellow | green | blue (incl. indigo; cyan, teal, turquoise) | purple / violet |
| pink (including magenta) | brown | | white | gray/grey | black |

### Further reading

* “color”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
* Color (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
* Category:Colors on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

### Anagrams

* corol, crool

## Aragonese
### Etymology

Inherited from Latin colōrem.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /koˈlo(ɾ)/
* Rhymes: -o(ɾ)
* Syllabification: co‧lor

### Noun

color f
* color / colour

### References

* Bal Palazios, Santiago (2002) “color”, in Dizionario breu de a luenga aragonesa, Zaragoza, →ISBN
* “color”, in Aragonario, diccionario aragonés–castellano (in Spanish)

## Asturian
### Alternative forms

* collor

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /koˈloɾ/ [koˈloɾ]
* Rhymes: -oɾ
* Syllabification: co‧lor

### Etymology

Inherited from Latin color, colōrem.

### Noun

color m or f (plural colores)
* color, colour

#### Related terms

* coloráu, colloráu

## Catalan
### Etymology

Inherited from Latin colōrem. Compare Occitan color, French couleur.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central) [kuˈlo]
* IPA: (Balearic) [koˈlo]
* IPA: (Valencia) [koˈloɾ]
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -o(ɾ)

### Noun

color m or (archaic, regional or poetic) f (plural colors)
* color, colour
* (poker) flush

#### Derived terms

* acolorir
* color cru
* color d'ala de mosca
* color de catxumbo
* color de gos com fuig
* color de merda d'oca
* color primari
* colorar
* escala de color

### See also

Colors in Catalan · colors (layout · text) :
| blanc | gris | negre |
| roig, vermell; carmesí | taronja; marró | groc; crema |
| verd llima | verd | |
| cian; xarxet | atzur | blau |
| violat; indi | magenta; lila, porpra | rosa |

### Further reading

* “color” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
* “color”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
* “color” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
* “color” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

## Galician
### Alternative forms

* cor

### Etymology

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese color, alternative form of coor, perhaps from an older forms collor (compare Asturian collor and color), from Latin color, colōrem.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈkoloɾ]

### Noun

color f (plural colores)
* color / colour, hue
** 1295, R. Lorenzo, La traducción gallega de la Crónica General y de la Crónica de Castilla, Ourense: I.E.O.P.F., page 745:diz que apareçeu ẽno çeo hũa cruz, que era de muytas colores et muy fremosa; et teuerõna os cristãos por muy boo sinalhe says that a cross appeared in the sky, which was of many colors and very beauty; and the Christians considered it a very good sign
* flush (suffusion of the face with blood)

#### Derived terms

* colorado
* de color

### References

* Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “color”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “color”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “collor”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “color”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “color”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “cor”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

## Italian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /koˈlor/
* Rhymes: -or
* Hyphenation: co‧lór

### Noun

color m (apocopated)
* Apocopic form of colore

### Anagrams

* cloro, cloro-

## Latin
### Alternative forms

* colōs (archaic)

### Etymology

From earlier colōs (genitive colōris), from Proto-Italic *kelōs, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱel- (“to hide, conceal”). The nominative singular changed to color in Classical times by analogy with the oblique forms, where /r/ had regularly developed from an original intervocalic /s/.

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈko.lor/, [ˈkɔɫ̪ɔr]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈko.lor/, [ˈkɔːlor]

### Noun

color m (genitive colōris); third declension
* color (US), colour (UK); shade, hue, tint
** 8 CE, Ovid, Fasti 4.429–430:tot fuerant illīc, quot habet nātūra, colōrēs, pictaque dissimilī flōre nitēbat humus.In that place there had been so many colors – as many as nature possesses – and the ground was radiant, having been decorated with every different flower. (Ovid describes the field where Persephone and her attendants picked flowers.)
* pigment
* complexion
* outward appearance

#### Declension

Third-declension noun.

#### Derived terms

* colōrō
* homō nūllīus colōris

#### Descendants

* Aragonese: color
* Asturian: color, collor
* Catalan: color m
* Dalmatian: colaur
* Emilian: culåur
* Friulian: colôr
* Italian: colore
* Ladin: corú, curú, culour, culëur, color, culòur
* Kristang: klor
* Mirandese: quelor
* Old French: color f, colour
** → English: color, colour
*** → Cebuano: kolor
** French: couleur
*** Karipúna Creole French: kuló
*** Haitian Creole: koulè
*** → Danish: kulør
** Norman: couleu (Jersey), couleur (Guernsey), couoleu (continental Normandy)
** → Middle Dutch: coleur
*** Dutch: kleur
**** Afrikaans: kleur
*** → West Frisian: kleur
* Old Galician-Portuguese: coor f
** Galician: cor f
** Portuguese: cor f
* Old Occitan: color f
** Occitan: color f
* Old Spanish: color m
** Spanish: color m or f
* Romagnol: culòr
* Romanian: culoare
* Romansch: colur, calur, calour, culur
* Sardinian: cabori, caori, colore, colori
* Sicilian: culuri
* Venetan: cołor
* → Welsh: colur

### References

* "color", in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* "color", in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
* "color", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
* color in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
* ↑ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “color”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 126

## Occitan
### Alternative forms

* coulour (Provençal)

### Etymology

Inherited from Old Occitan color, from Latin color, colōrem.

### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)

### Noun

color f (plural colors)
* color / colour

## Old French
### Alternative forms

* colour (colur, culur)

### Etymology

Inherited from Latin color, colōrem (“color or colour”).

### Noun

color oblique singular, f (oblique plural colors, nominative singular color, nominative plural colors)
* color / colour

#### Descendants

* → Danish: kulør
* → Dutch: kleur
** Afrikaans: kleur
* → English: color, colour
* French: couleur
* Norman: couleu (Jersey), couleur (Guernsey), couoleu (continental Normandy)
* → Swedish: kulör

## Old Galician-Portuguese
### Noun

color f (plural colors)
* Alternative form of coor

#### Descendants

* Galician: color

## Old Occitan
### Etymology

Inherited from Latin colōrem.

### Noun

color f (oblique plural colors, nominative singular color, nominative plural colors)
* color / colour

#### Descendants

* Occitan: color f

## Old Spanish
### Etymology

Inherited from Latin color. Cognate with Old Galician-Portuguese coor.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /koˈloɾ/

### Noun

color m (plural colores)
* color / colour
** c. 1200, Almerich, Fazienda de Ultramar, f. 19r:[…] &́ vieron la gĺa de iſŕl dedios. Como huebra de blãcor. &́ de cristal. ⁊ como color de los cielo$^s$ mõdos […][…] and they saw the glory of the God of Israel, like a work of white and crystal, and like the color of realm of the heavens. […]

#### Descendants

* Spanish: color m or f

## Romanian
### Etymology

Borrowed from English color. Doublet of culoare.

### Adjective

color m or f or n (indeclinable)
* color / colour (about film or photography)

#### Declension
## Spanish

Picture dictionary :
color
rojo naranja
amarillo
verde
azul
violeta
negro
gris
blanco :

### Etymology

Inherited from Old Spanish color, from Latin colōrem, singular accusative of color.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /koˈloɾ/ [koˈloɾ]
* Audio (Colombia):(file)
* Rhymes: -oɾ
* Syllabification: co‧lor

### Noun

color m or f same meaning (plural colores)
* color / colour, hue
** 1888, Eduardo Acevedo Díaz, Ismael‎, Buenos Aires: La Tribuna Nacional:Las mujeres atendían los pasteles y los peones los asados, a los que daban las últimas vueltas en las brasas, ya bien en punto y goteando grasa color de oro.(please add an English translation of this quotation)
* (usually feminine, archaic or dialectal) complexion

### Noun

color m (plural colores)
* rouge (cosmetics)
* pretext, motive, reason
* character; special quality
** 1992, “Sevilla tiene un color especial”, César Cadaval, Miguel Ángel Magüesín (lyrics), performed by Los del Río:Sevilla tiene un color especial / Sevilla sigue teniendo su duende / Me sigue oliendo a azahar / Me gusta estar con su genteSeville has a special character / Seville still has its charm / It still smells like orange blossom to me / I like to be with its people
* side, party, faction
* race, ethnicity
* (poker) flush

#### Usage notes

* The word is generally used in the masculine, while its use in the feminine is normal in medieval or classical Spanish. However, in countries like Chile or Ecuador, its use in the feminine is normal to refer to certain food colorings.

#### Derived terms

* a todo color
* color primario
* color secundario
* color terciario
* coloración
* colorado
* colorante
* colorar
* colorear
* colorete
* colorido
* colorín
* colorir
* darse color
* dato de color
* de color
* descolorar
* escalera de color
* incoloro
* lápiz de color
* no haber color
* para gustos colores
* so color de

#### Related terms

* corladura
* corlar

### See also

Colors in Spanish · colores (layout · text) :
| blanco | gris | negro |
| rojo; carmín, carmesí | naranja, anaranjado; marrón | amarillo; crema |
| lima | verde | menta |
| cian, turquesa; azul-petróleo | celeste, cerúleo | azul |
| violeta; añil, índigo | magenta; morado, púrpura | rosa, rosado |
Suits in Spanish · palos (layout · text) :
| corazones | diamantes | picas | tréboles |

### References

* ↑ “color”, in Diccionario panhispánico de dudas [Panhispanic Dictionary of Doubts] (in Spanish), 2nd edition, Royal Spanish Academy; Association of Academies of the Spanish Language, 2023, →ISBN

### Further reading

* “color”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10

### Anagrams

* cloro, corló, corlo, locro