adj., albus (colorless; opposed to ater): candidus (of a bright color, clear, pure, shining; opposed to niger): canus (grey, silvery; of hair and water): albidus (whitish, comparative). White as snow, niveus: white as milk, lacteus: white lilies, lilia candida (Ov.): white roses, rosae candidae, albentes: not to be able to distinguish black from white, atra et alba discernere non posse (Cic.): to be white, albere: white bread, panis candidus (Quint.): white wine, vinum album (Plin.), candidum (Pall.): to make black white, quidvis probare alicui posse (Plaut.). Troverbially. To wash a blackamoor white, ebur atramento candefacere (Plaut., Mostellaria, 1, 3, 102); nudo detrahere vestimenta (Plaut.): a white lie, mendaciunculum (little lie); mendacium modestum (opposed to mend, impudens).