colour (v.) Copy link Outline I. Lit.1. cŏlōro, 12. fūco, 1 (only of dyeing or of using false, meretricious colouring)3. tingo, infĭcioII. Fig. • colour (v.): I. Lit.: 1. cŏlōro, 1: to shape and c. atoms, individua corpora formare, c., Cic. Fig.: when I have been reading those books attentively, I feel that my language is, as it were, c.'d by contact with them, quum istos libros studiosius legerim, sentio orationem meam illorum tactu quasi colorari, Cic. 2. fūco, 1 (only of dyeing or of using false, meretricious colouring): Virg.: Gell. 3. tingo, infĭcio: v. to dye, stain. II. Fig.: v. to palliate, pretend.