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Color French Latin English 698.Color 英 Kʌlə(R)]美 Kʌlɚ

正面 698.color
英 ['kʌlə(r)]美 ['kʌlɚ]

背面
释义:
n. 颜色;肤色;颜料;脸色vt. 粉饰;给...涂颜色;歪曲vi. 变色;获得颜色
例句:
1. Nancy liked it well enough, but complained about the color.南希还蛮喜欢它,只是有点不满意它的颜色。

1、puls- "drive, push" => push.
color 颜色来自PIE*kel, 隐藏,遮盖,词源同cell, hole.后词义由遮盖引申为颜色,色彩。
color (n.)early 13c., "skin color, complexion," from Old French color "color, complexion, appearance" (Modern French couleur), from Latin color "color of the skin; color in general, hue; appearance," from Old Latin colos, originally "a covering" (akin to celare "to hide, conceal"), from PIE root *kel- (2) "to cover, conceal" (see cell). For sense evolution, compare Sanskrit varnah "covering, color," related to vrnoti "covers," and also see chroma. Meaning "visible color, color of something" is attested in English from c. 1300. As "color as a property of things," from late 14c. Old English words for "color" were hiw ("hue"), bleo.color (v.)late 14c.; see color (n.); earliest use is figurative. Related: Colored; coloring."

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