colorate

English

Etymology 1

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *ḱel-

Proto-Indo-European *-os

Proto-Indo-European *-s

Proto-Indo-European *-ōs

Proto-Indo-European *ḱélōs

Proto-Italic *kelōs

Old Latin colōs

Latin color

Old French color

Anglo-Norman colurbor.

Middle English colour

English color

Proto-Indo-European *-h₂

Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂

Proto-Indo-European *-tós

Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂tos

Proto-Italic *-ātos

Latin -ātuslbor.

English -ate

English colorate

From color + -ate (verb-forming suffix).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkʌləɹeɪt/

• Audio (Southern England):

  (file)

Verb

colorate (third-person singular simple present colorates, present participle colorating, simple past and past participle colorated)

1. To apply color to something; to make colorful.

Derived terms

• concolorate
• decolorate

Etymology 2

From Latin colōrātus, past participle of colōrō (“to color”). Equivalent to color +‎ -ate (adjective-froming suffix)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkʌləɹət/

• Audio (Southern England):

  (file)

Adjective

colorate (comparative more colorate, superlative most colorate)

1. (obsolete) Colored.
   • 1691, John Ray, The Wisdom of God Manifested in the Works of the Creation. […], London: […] Samuel Smith, […], →OCLC:

     had the tunicles and humours of the eye , all , or any of them , been colorate , many of the rays proceeding from the viſible object would have been stopped and ſuffocated before they could come to the bottom

Derived terms

• concolorate
• decolorate

Italian

Etymology 1

Verb

colorate

1. inflection of colorare:
   1. second-person plural present indicative
   2. second-person plural imperative

Etymology 2

Participle

colorate f pl

1. feminine plural of colorato

Anagrams

• colatore, locatore

Latin

Verb

colōrāte

1. second-person plural present active imperative of colōrō

References

• “colorate”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “colorate”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Spanish

Verb

colorate

1. second-person singular voseo imperative of colorar combined with te