decolor

English

Verb

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

1. US spelling of decolour

Anagrams

• Colored, cedorol, colored, croodle, crooled

Latin

Etymology

dē- +‎ color (“color”)

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈdeː.ko.lor/, [ˈd̪eːkɔɫ̪ɔr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈde.ko.lor/, [ˈd̪ɛːkolor]

Adjective

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

1. discolored, off-color; drab-coloured

Declension

Third-declension one-termination adjective.

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