pallor
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English [edit]
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Etymology [edit]
From Latin pallor (“paleness, pallor”), from palleō (“I am or look pale, blanch”).
Pronunciation [edit]
Noun [edit]
pallor (plural pallors)
- Paleness; want of color; pallidity.
- pallor of the complexion
- 1886, Robert Louis Stevenson, Strange Case Of Dr Jekyll And Mr Hyde
- "Sir," said the butler, turning to a sort of mottled pallor, "that thing was not my master, and there's the truth. My master"--here he looked round him and began to whisper--"is a tall, fine build of a man, and this was more of a dwarf."
Translations [edit]
paleness; want of color; pallidity
External links [edit]
References [edit]
- pallor in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
Latin [edit]
Etymology [edit]
From palleō (“I am or look pale, blanch”), from Proto-Indo-European *pel- (“gray”).
Pronunciation [edit]
Noun [edit]
pallor (genitive pallōris); m, third declension
- a pale color, paleness, wanness, pallor
- (by extension) mustiness, moldiness, mildew
- (by extension) dimness, faintness
- (by extension) a disagreeable color or shape, unsightliness
- (figuratively) alarm, terror
Inflection [edit]
| Number | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | pallor | pallōrēs |
| genitive | pallōris | pallōrum |
| dative | pallōrī | pallōribus |
| accusative | pallōrem | pallōrēs |
| ablative | pallōre | pallōribus |
| vocative | pallor | pallōrēs |
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References [edit]
- pallor in Charlton T. Lewis & Charles Short, A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1879
