Question: what is the latin root for color?
Answer: Etymology. From Middle English colour, color, borrowed from Anglo-Norman colur, from Old French colour, color, from Latin color, from Old Latin colos (“covering”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱel- (“to cover, conceal”). Akin to Latin cēlō (“I hide, conceal”), Old English helan ("to conceal, cover, hide"; see hele).