Questions tagged [color]
For questions about the Latin colour terms and their metaphoric meanings.
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Why is "uenetus" a colour name?
I recently came across the following entry on Wiktionary for the adjective "uenetus":
of or pertaining to the Veneti; Venetian
blue, blue-green, sea-blue
Why and how is this adjective ...
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What adjectives did the Romans use to describe skin color?
The Romans surely met peoples of different skin color in their interactions between Gauls and Africans and many others.
I assume that there were clear color differences back then and that the Romans ...
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Latin "Basic" Colors and Shades
Salvete Omnes,
While I am working on a Minecraft resource pack that changes the Latin, which hopefully fixes some rough spots in it, I came back to a problem which strikes me occasionally with colors ...
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Roman's color and emotion association
I'm interested in account of colors associated with emotions. It might be an explicit passage by a Roman, sporadic sentences (like: "he became green out of envy) or relics to be found in ...
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What was the difference in the concept of "colour" in Latin and modern languages?
For this question: Are there Latin words for hair color?, I had to search a little about the concept of "color" in Latin.
I also had a debate on another SE, with people who consider that &...
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Did the Romans have a color of mourning?
In today's western culture the color black is associated with mourning.
Did the Romans have a mourning color?
I am interested in a color that was physically present in time of mourning, for example in ...
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Are there Latin words for hair color?
English words like "brunette", "blonde", and "redhead" refer to people of a particular hair color.
Are there similar words in Latin?
It is easy to express hair color in English or Latin with several ...
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What is the difference between niger and ater?
L&S gives descriptions of niger and ater, but the difference is is not clear to me at all.
Both mean black, but there appears to be a difference in nuance — as practically always when two ...
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Did Romans distinguish between black and blue?
Did the Romans distinguish between black and blue? Or, more generally, what do we know about their color system?
I was wondering because many of the modern Roman languages use either Arabic or ...
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Colors of the rainbow
The classical Latin word for a rainbow seems to be Iris (Iris or Iridis, f.).
Did the Romans ever list or otherwise discuss the colors of the rainbow in extant literature?
I asked about colors in ...
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What colours did different colour words mean, exactly?
There are many different words for colours in Latin, but it's not easy to tell what kind of colour was exactly meant by each word.
Do we know what different colour words meant?
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Allecto's cerulean hair in *Æneid* VII.346-7
In VII.346-7 of the Æneid, when Juno sics Allecto on Amata, we have
Hic dea cæruleís únum dé crínibus anguem
Conjicit inque sinum præcordia ad intima subdit.
Allecto's … blue hair? Hunh?...
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