Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗To give something color. · To cause (a pipe, especially a meerschaum) to take on a brown or black color, by smoking. · To apply colors to the areas within the boundaries of a line drawing using colored markers or crayons. · To become red through increased blood flow.
The spectral composition of visible light. · A particular set of visible spectral compositions, perceived or named as a class. · Hue as opposed to achromatic colors (black, white and grays). · 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).
Conveying color, as opposed to shades of gray.
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ḱel- Proto-Indo-European *-os Proto-Indo-European *-s Proto-Indo-European *-ōs Proto-Indo-European *ḱélōs Proto-Italic *kelōs Old Latin colōs Latin color Old French color Anglo-Norman colurbor. Middle English colour English color From Middle English colour, color, borrowed from Anglo-Norman colur, from Old French colour, color, from Latin color. Doublet of couleur. Largely displaced English blee, Middle English blee (“color”), from Old English blēo. Also partially replaced Old English hīew (“color”) and its descendants (English hue), which is less often used in this sense. The spelling color was popularized in modern American English by Noah 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).
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