discolor

English

Alternative forms

• discolour

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old French descolorer, des- + colorer

Verb

discolor (third-person singular simple present discolors, present participle discoloring, simple past and past participle discolored)

1. (American spelling) To change or lose color.

   Washing light laundry with dark may cause your clothes to discolor.

   A bad enough bruise can discolor the skin.

Translations

(intransitive) to change or lose color

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 變色／变色 (zh) (biànsè), 变色 (zh) (biànsè)

• Finnish: värjäytyä (fi), värjääntyä (fi)
• German: sich verfärben (de)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Japanese: 変色する (ja) (へんしょくする, henshoku suru)
• Russian: обесцве́чиваться (ru) impf (obescvéčivatʹsja), обесцве́титься (ru) pf (obescvétitʹsja), выцвета́ть (ru) impf (vycvetátʹ), вы́цвести (ru) pf (výcvesti)
• Spanish: decolorarse (es)

(transitive) to change or lose color

• Finnish: värjätä (fi)
• German: verfärben (de)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Russian: обесцве́чивать (ru) impf (obescvéčivatʹ), обесцве́тить (ru) pf (obescvétitʹ)
• Spanish: decolorar (es)

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Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈdis.ko.lor/, [ˈd̪ɪs̠kɔɫ̪ɔr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈdis.ko.lor/, [ˈd̪iskolor]

Adjective

discolor (genitive discolōris); third-declension one-termination adjective

1. having a different colour
2. variegated

Declension

Third-declension one-termination adjective.

Number	Singular			Plural
Case / Gender	Masc./Fem.	Neuter		Masc./Fem.	Neuter
Nominative	discolor			discolōrēs	discolōria
Genitive	discolōris			discolōrium
Dative	discolōrī			discolōribus
Accusative	discolōrem	discolor		discolōrēs	discolōria
Ablative	discolōrī			discolōribus
Vocative	discolor			discolōrēs	discolōria

References

• “discolor”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “discolor”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• discolor in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• discolor in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.