• BLACK

1. ater (opposed to albus; figuratively, mournful, calamitous): niger (opposed to candidus): pullus (dirty, dingy black, by nature or by dirt): fuscus (blackish; e.g., of a skin burned by the sun): atratus, pullatus (dressed in black): atrox (atrocious, horrible): scelestus (accursed): tristis, tetricua (gloomy, sullen). To become black, nigrescere. To be black, nigrere. To be somewhat black, nigricare. Black and blue, lividus. The black art, ars magica. In black and white, scriptus: to have a thing under black and white, fidem litterarum habere. A sky black with clouds, caelum obscurum. Blackberry, morum rubi, rubum: bush, rubus. Blackbird, merula. Blacksmith, faber ferrarius. Black-thorn, prunus silvestris; prunus spinosa (Linn.).

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• s. color niger; atramentum.
• Black dress, pulla vestis, pulla (plur.); vestis or cultus lugubris, squalor, sordes. Dressed in black (mourning), sordidatus; pullatus, atratus, veste lugubri vestitus.
• The black of a thing, atrum, nigrum.
• A negro, Aethiops, Afer.