primary color

See also: primary colour

English

Alternative forms

• primary colour (UK)

Noun

primary color (plural primary colors)

1. Any of three colors which, when added to or subtracted from others in different amounts, can generate all other colors

   Coordinate terms: secondary color, tertiary color

   Red, blue and green are additive primary colors.

   Magenta, yellow and cyan are subtractive primary colors.

Translations

any of three colors which can generate all other colors

• Catalan: color primari m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 原色 (zh) (yuánsè), 基色 (jīsè)

• Finnish: pääväri (fi)
• French: couleur primaire (fr) f
• Galician: cor primaria f
• German: Grundfarbe (de) f, Primärfarbe (de) f
• Greek: βασικό χρώμα n (vasikó chróma)
• Gujarati: મૂળ રંગ (mūḷ raṅg)
• Japanese: 原色 (ja) (げんしょく, genshoku)
• Korean: 원색 (ko) (wonsaek)
• Māori: tae mātāmua
• Polish: barwa podstawowa f
• Romanian: culoare primară f, culoare fundamentală (ro) f
• Spanish: color primario m
• Tagalog: pangunahing kulay

Further reading

• primary color on Wikipedia.Wikipedia