decolor

English

Verb

decolor (third-person singular simple present decolors, present participle decoloring, simple past and past participle decolored)

US spelling of decolour.

Anagrams

Colored, cedorol, colored, croodle, crooled

Latin

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *de

Proto-Indo-European *-h₁

Proto-Indo-European *déh₁

Proto-Italic *dē

Latin dē

Latin dē-

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

Latin dēcolor

From dē- + color (“color”).

Pronunciation

(Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈdeː.kɔ.ɫɔr]
(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈdɛː.ko.lor]

Adjective

dēcolor (genitive dēcolōris); third-declension one-termination adjective

discolored, off-color; drab-coloured

Declension

Third-declension one-termination adjective.

	masc./fem.	neuter	masc./fem.	neuter
	singular		plural
nominative	dēcolor		dēcolōrēs	dēcolōria
genitive	dēcolōris		dēcolōrium
dative	dēcolōrī		dēcolōribus
accusative	dēcolōrem	dēcolor	dēcolōrīs dēcolōrēs	dēcolōria
ablative	dēcolōrī dēcolōre		dēcolōribus
vocative	dēcolor		dēcolōrēs	dēcolōria

References

“decolor”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“decolor”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
“decolor”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.