concolor Latin · revision 36442

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=70–19 BC, Virgil|origins=ine-pro *ḱel-ōs}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [ˈkɔŋ.kɔ.ɫɔr]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [ˈkɔŋ.ko.lor]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''concolor''' (genitive concolōris); third-declension one-termination adjective (non-i-stem)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|con-|color|t2=colour]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(TLL) De Vaan traces [[m|la|color]], early ⟨colōs⟩, to [[itc-pro|*kelōs-|t=outside, aspect]] and [[ine-pro|*ḱel-ōs|t=cover, covering]]; in Latin the word shifted from “covering” to “colour”.^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ The TLL finds it first in Virgil,^(TLL) who in the ''Aeneid'' describes a white sow with her white young.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is most frequent in Ovid, and Columella is the first prose writer to use it.^(TLL)^(Lewis & Short 1879) It takes a dative or ''cum'' with the thing matched.^(Conte 2010) Pliny the Elder uses it of something of one colour throughout,^(OLD 2012) and an inscription seems to use it of belonging to the same faction.^(OLD 2012) Apuleius applies it to statements that match one another,^(OLD 2012)^(Conte 2010) and in Late Latin it means alike or of the same kind, as in Prudentius and in Ambrose's phrase ''concolor Christō''.^(Georges 1913)^(Conte 2010) Martianus Capella has a feminine ''concolōra''.^(Lewis & Short 1879) Medieval writers kept both the literal sense and “similar, equal”.^(MLW)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 70–19 BC – Virgil uses it of a sow and her young of the same colour.^(OLD 2012)^(TLL)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 43 BC–18 AD – Ovid uses it often.^(TLL)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 1st century AD – Columella is the first to use it in prose.^(TLL)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 125–175 AD – Apuleius uses it of matching statements.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 348/49–c. 413 AD – Prudentius uses it of things of the same kind.^(Conte 2010)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Adjective===

+ # Of the same [[m|en|colour]], matching in colour.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # Of one colour throughout, uniform in colour.^(OLD 2012)^(Conte 2010)

+ # Belonging to the same [[m|en|faction]].^(OLD 2012)

+ # ''(of statements)'' Agreeing, matching.^(OLD 2012)^(Conte 2010)

+ # ''(Late Latin)'' Alike, of the same kind.^(Georges 1913)^(Conte 2010)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[color]]

+ * [[discolor]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}