color

Latin noun

Last edited: 2025-04-29
Primary meaning color
Literal translation color
Variants
color
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color term of visual perception

tu modo corporeis similis ne quaere figuras, omnia ut aequali fulgentia membra colore deficiat nihil aut vacuum qua lumine cesset.

‘Only look not for shapes like bodily shapes or think to see all the members shining with equal brilliance with nothing missing or anywhere left devoid of light.’

— Manilius, Astronomica 1.458 ff

Genre: astrological treatise

Manilius. Astronomica. Edited and translated by G. P. Goold. Loeb Classical Library 469. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1977. 40-41

magnitude astronomical quantity

invenitque parem sub te, Cynosura, colorem

‘It includes as of like degree your brightness, Lesser Bear’

— Manilius, Astronomica 5.712

Genre: astrological treatise

Manilius. Astronomica. Edited and translated by G. P. Goold. Loeb Classical Library 469. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1977. 358-359

Cite this entry
APA (7th)
Meinhardt, K. (2025). color (Lemma #2027). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/2027/
Chicago (Author-Date)
Meinhardt, K. (2025). color (Lemma #2027). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/2027/
MLA (9th)
Meinhardt, K. (2025). color (Lemma #2027). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/2027/
Harvard
Meinhardt, K. (2025) color (Lemma #2027), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/2027/ (Accessed: February 2, 2026).
BibTeX 
@misc{zodiac2027,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2026-02-02]},
	author = {Meinhardt, Kierán},
	year = {2025},
	title = {color ({Lemma} #2027)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/2027/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/2027/},
}