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decoloro

decoloratur

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Where it lives

Marcus Antoninus Philosophus 1 · 1.82/10k
Alexander Severus 1 · 0.94/10k
Epistulae, Books VIII-IX 1 · 0.79/10k
Carmina 1 · 0.75/10k
Divus Augustus 1 · 0.75/10k
De Medicina 2 · 0.2/10k
Naturalis Historia 2 · 0.05/10k

What it meant

dē-cŏlōro — Lewis & Short

dē-cŏlōro, āvi, ātum, 1,

I v. a., to deprive of its natural color, to discolor, stain, deface, soil, etc.

I Prop.: "decoloratur id cujus color vitiatur, non mutatur," Sen. Q. N. 2, 41: quod mare Dauniae Non decoloravere caedes, * Hor. Od. 2, 1, 35: manibus collybo decoloratis, Cassius Parmensis ap. Suet. Aug. 4 fin.: cutem (suppurationes), Cels. 2, 8 med.: labra et nares (pallor), id. ib. 6: decoloratum corpus mortui, Auct. Her. 2, 5, 8; 2, 27 fin.: oliva ex albo decoloratur fitque luteola, Col. 12, 49, 9: decoloravit me sol, Vulg. Cant. 1, 5 al.—

II Trop., to tarnish, corrupt, disgrace: aliquem, Cod. Just. 1, 3, 19; cf.: famam, Capitol. Ant. Phil. 19.

In the wild

decoloratis Suetonius, Divus Augustus 4.2
decolores Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 9.35.p7
decoloravit Historia Augusta, Alexander Severus 2
decolorent Celsus, De Medicina 2.8.p28
decoloret Historia Augusta, Marcus Antoninus Philosophus 19
decolorat Celsus, De Medicina 2.6.p1

6 of 9 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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