The corpus record — Latin

bicolor

bicolor · adj

of two colors

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Where it lives

Saturae 1 · 2.21/10k
Aeneid 2 · 0.32/10k
Metamorphoses 2 · 0.26/10k
Naturalis Historia 2 · 0.05/10k

What it meant

bĭcŏlor — Lewis & Short

bĭcŏlor, ōris (bĭcŏlōrus, a, um, adj.bis-color,

Vop. Aur. 13),

I of two colors, twocolored (poet. or in post-Aug. prose): equus, Verg. A. 5, 566: baca, green and black, Ov. M. 8, 664: myrtus, steel-colored, id. ib. 10, 98; cf. id. ib. 11, 234; Plin. 10, 52, 74, § 144.

In the wild

bicolor Vergil, Aeneid 5.566
bicolor Ovid, Metamorphoses 10.98
bicolor Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 10.52.p2
bicolor Persius, Saturae 3.10
bicolor Ovid, Metamorphoses 8.664
bicolor Vergil, Aeneid 8.276

6 of 7 attestations shown.

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.

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