concolor

A New Latin Dictionary by Charlton T. Lewis Ph.D. and Charles Short, LL. D.

con-cŏlor, cŏlōris,

I adj. gen. omn. (postclass. access. form of the fem. concolora, Carystos, Mart. Cap. 6, § 659 fin. ; cf. id. 1, § 80), of the same color (poet. and in postAug. prose; most freq. in Ov.; perh. first used by him).

α With dat.: concolor est illis, Ov. M. 11, 500: populus festo, of the same hue with the festival , i. e. clothed in white , id. F. 1, 80: lingua lanae, Col. 7, 3, 1: oculi corpori, Plin. 8, 33, 51, § 121: auro, Stat. S. 4, 7, 16: fluctibus, Mart. Cap. 6, § 659.—

β Absol. : candida per silvam cum fetu concolor albo Procubuit sus, Verg. A. 8, 82; so, umerus, Ov. M. 6, 406: flos, id. ib. 10, 735: cicatrix, Plin. 28, 9, 37, § 139.—With dat.: Christo, Ambros. in Luc. 5, § 23.—

II Like, similar , Ap. Met. 5, 16, 16.

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