Noun: color
Hyphenation:
Gender: Masculine
Declension: Third
Nominative
| Singular | color |
| Plural | colōrēs |
Genitive
| Singular | colōris |
| Plural | colōrum |
Dative
| Singular | colōrī |
| Plural | colōribus |
Accusative
| Singular | colōrem |
| Plural | colōrēs |
Ablative
| Singular | colōre |
| Plural | colōribus |
Vocative
| Singular | color |
| Plural | colōrēs |
Sample Sentences
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tot fuerant illīc, quot habet nātūra, colōrēs,
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pictaque dissimilī flōre nitēbat humus.
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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.
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(Ovid describes the field where Persephone and her attendants picked flowers.)) [8 CE, Ovidius, Fasti 4.429–430]
Nouns inflected like color
nōmenculātor,
conciliātor,
sessor,
sector,
senior,
sartor,
assentātor,
miserātor,
salūtificātor,
praegustātor,
trājector,
stimulātor,
propitiātor,
compōtor,
laqueātor,
irrumātor,
intrōductor,
smēgmātor,
fēnerātor,
prānsor, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *ḱel-
3. Proto-Indo-European *-os
4. Proto-Indo-European *-s
5. Proto-Indo-European *-ōs
6. Proto-Indo-European *ḱélōs
7. Proto-Italic *kelōs
8. Old Latin colōs
9. Latin colōr
10. From earlier Old Latin 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 intervocalic /r/ had regularly developed from an original intervocalic /s/.
Verbs referencing "color"
English Nouns
color, Asturian Nouns
color, Catalan Nouns
color, Galician Nouns
color, Middle English Nouns
colour, Italian Nouns
colore, French Nouns
couleur, Galician Nouns
cor, Portuguese Nouns
cor, Dutch Nouns
kleur, English Nouns
colorimeter, Romanian Nouns
culoare, Danish Nouns
kulør, Norwegian Bokmål Nouns
kulør, Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns
kulør, Old Portuguese Nouns
coor, Ukrainian Nouns
колір, Swedish Nouns
kulör.
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