black (subs.) Copy link Outline I. The colourII. Black dressIII. A black man • black (subs.): I. The colour: nigrum: the colour is changed from b. to white, e nigro color est mutatus in album, Ov. II. Black dress: Phr.: pray who ever dined in b.? cedo quis unquam coenarit atrātus? Cic.: lictors clothed in b., lictores atri, Hor.: v. mourning. III. A black man: Aethiops, ŏpis: let the white man laugh at the b., derideat Aethiopem albus, Juv.