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Gallia est omnis dīvīsa in partēs trēs, quārum ūnam incolunt Belgae.

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S&H Smith & Hall (2)
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Digitized by Distributed Proofreaders from William Smith and Theophilus D. Hall, A Copious and Critical English-Latin Dictionary (1871), and generously placed into the public domain.
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• black (adj.):
    1. I. Of colour:
      1. 1. āter, tra, trum (prop. dead b.): do you drink white or b. wine? album an a. vinum potas? Pl.: I will make her as black as a coal, reddam tam atram quam carbo est, Ter.: a b. cloud, a. nubes, Cic.: a b. (gloomy) colour, color a., Ov.
      2. 2. nĭger, gra, grum (prop. a glossy b.): to say what things are white, what b., quae alba sint, quae n. dicere, Cic.: although he was b. (or swarthy), you fair, quamvis ille n., quamvis tu candidus esses, Virg.: volumes of b. smoke, n. volumina fumi, Ov.: b. blood, n. sanguis, Ov.: the sky was blacker than pitch, coelum pice nigrius fuit, Ov.
      3. 3. nigrans, antis (chiefly poet.): b. wings, nigrantes alae, Ov.: Virg. Phr.: to be b., nigrare, Lucr.: to become b., nigrescere, Ov.: Plin.: v. dark, dirty.
    2. II. Dismal, calamitous:
      1. 1. āter: a b. day, dies a., Virg.: b. death, a. mors, Hor.
      2. 2. nĭger: a b. day, n. sol, Hor.: Ov.
    3. III. Horrible, atrocious: q. v.
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• black (subs.):
    1. I. The colour: nigrum: the colour is changed from b. to white, e nigro color est mutatus in album, Ov.
    2. 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.
    3. III. A black man: Aethiops, ŏpis: let the white man laugh at the b., derideat Aethiopem albus, Juv.
R&A Riddle & Arnold (1)
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J. E. Riddle and T. K. Arnold, A Copious and Critical English-Latin Lexicon. Data retrieved from FergusJPWalsh/riddle-arnold under a CC BY-SA 4.0 license.
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• 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.