latin colors Flashcards
Aer
light blue
Albens rosa
pale pink
Albus
white
Amethystinus
Amethest
Amygdala
Almond light tan
Aureus
golden yellow
caesicius
sky blue
callianus
turcoise
Calthius
Marigold yellow
carinus
walnut brown with red over tones
Cerasinus
cherry red
cereus
wax yellow brownish yellow
cerinus
brownish yellow
coccinus
scarlet
conchylaitus
pale lavender
coracinus
raven black
crocotulus
redish orange
croceus
saffron yellow
cumatilis
sea blue
Erythraeus
a natural reddish hue of wool
Ferrugineus
a somewhat purpleish red
flammeus
reddish orange
fuscus
brown with reddish tinge
galbinus
yellowish green
Glandes
chesnut brown
Heliotropium
reddish blue red
Hyacinthinus
reddish violet
hysyignus
scarlet
Ianthinus
violet
Indicum
Indigo blue
luteus
yellow red
malva
Mauve
Molocinus
Mauve
Ostrinus
reddish purple
Paphiae myrti
dark green
prasinus
blueish green
Pullus
Gray, according to Ovid; also black or a very deep brown-black, the color of mourning
Puniceus, phoenicius,
scarlet
Purpura
Purple; the four major shades were ater, dark; lividus, pale; ruber, red; and violaceus, blue
Purpureus laconicus
Dark rose purple
Purpureus Tyrius
Light rose purple
Ruber Tarentinus
Reddish violet
Russus,
Bright red
Thalassinus
Purple of undetermined hue
Threicia grus
Gray
Tyrianthinus
Violet purple
Undae
Sea blue? darker blue?
Venetus
Dark blue
Violaceus
Violet
Viola serotina
Blue-red
Violeus
Violet
Viridis
Green