color

Alternative forms

 * (see the usage notes below)

Etymology
From, , borrowed from , from , , from.

Displaced, , from. Also partially replaced 🇨🇬 and its descendants (🇨🇬), which is less often used in this sense. .

The spelling color was popularized in modern American English by 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).

Noun
(Canadian spelling, rare)


 * 1)  The spectral composition of visible light.
 * 2) A subset thereof:
 * 3)  A particular set of visible spectral compositions, perceived or named as a class.
 * 4)  Hue as opposed to achromatic colors (black, white and grays).
 * 5) 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).
 * 6)  Any of the standard dark tinctures used in a coat of arms, including azure, gules, sable, and vert.
 * 7) A paint.
 * The artist took out her colors and began work on a landscape.
 * 1)  Human skin tone, especially as an indicator of race or ethnicity.
 * 2)  Skin color, noted as normal, jaundiced, cyanotic, flush, mottled, pale, or ashen as part of the skin signs assessment.
 * 3) A flushed appearance of blood in the face; redness of complexion.
 * 4)   Richness of expression; detail or flavour that is likely to generate interest or enjoyment.
 * 5) A standard, flag, or insignia:
 * 6)  A standard or banner.
 * 7)  The flag of a nation or team.
 * 8)  Gang insignia.
 * 9)  An award for sporting achievement, particularly within a school or university.
 * 10)  The morning ceremony of raising the flag.
 * 11)  A property of quarks, with three values called red, green, and blue, which they can exchange by passing gluons; color charge.
 * 12)  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.
 * 13)  The relative lightness or darkness of a mass of written or printed text on a page. (See )
 * 14)  Any of the colored balls excluding the reds.
 * 15) A front or facade; an ostensible truth actually false; pretext.
 * 16) An appearance of right or authority; color of law.
 * 17)  Gold, particles of gold found when prospecting.
 * 1) A standard, flag, or insignia:
 * 2)  A standard or banner.
 * 3)  The flag of a nation or team.
 * 4)  Gang insignia.
 * 5)  An award for sporting achievement, particularly within a school or university.
 * 6)  The morning ceremony of raising the flag.
 * 7)  A property of quarks, with three values called red, green, and blue, which they can exchange by passing gluons; color charge.
 * 8)  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.
 * 9)  The relative lightness or darkness of a mass of written or printed text on a page. (See )
 * 10)  Any of the colored balls excluding the reds.
 * 11) A front or facade; an ostensible truth actually false; pretext.
 * 12) An appearance of right or authority; color of law.
 * 13)  Gold, particles of gold found when prospecting.
 * 1)  An award for sporting achievement, particularly within a school or university.
 * 2)  The morning ceremony of raising the flag.
 * 3)  A property of quarks, with three values called red, green, and blue, which they can exchange by passing gluons; color charge.
 * 4)  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.
 * 5)  The relative lightness or darkness of a mass of written or printed text on a page. (See )
 * 6)  Any of the colored balls excluding the reds.
 * 7) A front or facade; an ostensible truth actually false; pretext.
 * 8) An appearance of right or authority; color of law.
 * 9)  Gold, particles of gold found when prospecting.
 * 1) An appearance of right or authority; color of law.
 * 2)  Gold, particles of gold found when prospecting.
 * 1)  Gold, particles of gold found when prospecting.
 * 1)  Gold, particles of gold found when prospecting.
 * 1)  Gold, particles of gold found when prospecting.

Usage notes
The late 🇨🇬, which is the standard UK spelling, has been the usual spelling in Britain since the 14th century and was chosen by ' (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  ' (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.

Derived terms
The majority of these terms are either considered alternative forms of, or have alternative forms corresponding to, (the Commonwealth and Irish spelling).

Adjective

 * 1) Conveying color, as opposed to shades of gray.

Verb

 * 1)  To give something color.
 * 2)  To cause (a pipe, especially a meerschaum) to take on a brown or black color, by smoking.
 * 3)  To apply colors to the areas within the boundaries of a line drawing using colored markers or crayons.
 * 4)  To become red through increased blood flow.
 * 5) To affect without completely changing.
 * 6)   To attribute a quality to; to portray (as).
 * 7)  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.
 * 1)  To become red through increased blood flow.
 * 2) To affect without completely changing.
 * 3)   To attribute a quality to; to portray (as).
 * 4)  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.
 * 1)   To attribute a quality to; to portray (as).
 * 2)  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.
 * 1)   To attribute a quality to; to portray (as).
 * 2)  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.
 * 1)  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.
 * 1)  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.
 * 1)  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.

Translations

 * Guerrero Amuzgo:
 * Persian: ,

Etymology
.

Noun

 * 1) colour

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) color, colour

Etymology
. Compare 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * , colour
 * 1)  flush

Etymology
From, alternative form of , perhaps from an older forms (compare 🇨🇬 and ), from.

Noun

 * , hue
 * 1) flush suffusion of the face with blood
 * 1) flush suffusion of the face with blood

Etymology
From earlier (genitive ), from, from. The nominative singular changed to in Classical times by analogy with the oblique forms, where /r/ had regularly developed from an original intervocalic /s/.

Noun

 * 1) colour, color ; shade, hue, tint
 * 2) pigment
 * 3) complexion
 * 4) outward appearance
 * 1) outward appearance

Etymology
From, from.

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * , colour

Etymology
.

Noun

 * , colour

Etymology
From. Cognate with 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) color

Etymology
..

Etymology
, from, singular accusative of.

Noun

 * , colour, hue
 * 1)  complexion
 * 1)  complexion

Noun

 * 1) rouge cosmetics
 * 2) pretext, motive, reason
 * 3) character; special quality
 * 4) side, party, faction
 * 5) race, ethnicity
 * 6)  flush
 * 1)  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.