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coloribus

coloribus is a Latin form of color, meaning “color, hue; complexion; outward show, pretext”. It is the ablative plural masculine noun or dative plural masculine noun.

Found 57 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, De Republica 5.1: … vero aetas cum rem publicam sicut picturam accepisset egregiam, sed iam evanescentem vetustate, non modo eam coloribus eisdem, quibus fuerat, renovare neglexit, sed ne id quidem curavit, ut formam saltem eius et extrema tamquam …

All forms of color (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Lewis & Short, A Latin Dictionary (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.