coloro Latin · revision 36852

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=234–149 BC, Cato|origins=la color}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [kɔˈɫoː.roː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [koˈlɔː.ro]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''colōrō''' (present infinitive colōrāre, perfect active colōrāvī, supine colōrātum); first conjugation^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|color|-ō|t1=colour]],^(OLD 2012)^(Bianchi & Lelli 2014)^(Georges 1913) a verb made from the noun.^(de Vaan 2008) De Vaan traces [[m|la|color]], older [[m|la|colōs]], to [[itc-pro|*kelōs-|t=outside, aspect]] and [[ine-pro|*ḱel-ōs|t=cover, covering]]; in Latin the noun shifted from “covering” to “colour”.^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ De Vaan and the TLL find it first in Cato,^(de Vaan 2008)^(TLL) who in the ''De agri cultura'' uses it of food browned in the cooking.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ Cicero has it of giving colour to bodies, in the ''De natura deorum'', and of being tanned by the sun: in the ''De oratore'' he says that walking in the sun browns a man even when he walks for another reason.^(OLD 2012)^(Gaffiot 2016) Vitruvius uses it of water dyed with violets,^(OLD 2012) and the Elder Seneca of painting the cheeks.^(Georges 1913)

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+ From the start it was also used of style and character: eloquence, Cicero writes in the ''Orator'', gives itself colour and strength.^(OLD 2012)^(Conte 2010) Seneca the Younger opposes what is merely coloured to what is deeply dyed in the mind,^(Gaffiot 2016)^(Conte 2010) and says of a friend's letters that they are neither feigned nor “coloured”, that is, not given a false gloss;^(OLD 2012) in the rhetorical schools it meant to make a case look fair, to put a good face on it.^(OLD 2012)

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+ Medieval writers kept the senses of dyeing and painting;^(MLW) Aldhelm uses it of fleeces dyed with purple.^(MLW) Ecclesiastical Latin also used it for glossing over something.^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 234–149 BC – Cato uses it of browning food in cooking.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero uses it of colouring bodies, of tanning, and of style.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 84–c. 25 BC – Vitruvius uses it of water dyed with violets.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 4 BC–65 AD – Seneca uses it of giving a false gloss to words.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 639–709 AD – Aldhelm uses it of fleeces dyed purple.^(MLW)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To give [[m|en|colour]] to, to [[m|en|tinge]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # To [[m|en|dye]]; to paint or [[m|en|rouge]] the face.^(OLD 2012)^(Georges 1913)

+ # To make darker in colour, as by ripening or baking.^(OLD 2012)

+ # To [[m|en|tan]], make sunburnt.^(OLD 2012)^(Gaffiot 2016)

+ # ''(figurative)'' To give a particular character to, to “colour” (style, speech).^(OLD 2012)^(Conte 2010)

+ # To give a deceptive [[m|en|gloss]] to;^(OLD 2012) ''(rhetoric)'' to make a case look fair, make [[m|en|specious]].^(OLD 2012)

+ # ''(Ecclesiastical Latin)'' To give tone to; to gloss over.^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[colorabilis]]

+ * [[colōrātor]]

+ * [[concolorans]]

+ * [[dēcolōrō]]

+ * [[colōrātus]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[color]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}