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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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• dye (v.):
      1. 1. tingo or tinguo, xi, ctum, 3: wool double d.d in purple, lanae bis murice tinctae, Hor.: to d. the hair, comam t., Ov.: to d. purple, purpuram t. (to impart the colour by dyeing), Plin. Fig.: a modest blush d.s the cheek, verecundus t. ora pudor, Ov.
      2. 2. infĭcio, fēci, fectum, 3: to d. purple, purpuram inf., Plin.: the Britons d. their skin with woad, Britanni se vitro inf., Caes.: v. to stain.
      3. 3. fūco, 1 (strictly to colour red): to d. wool with Assyrian drugs, lanam Assyrio f. veneno, Virg.: Claud. Phr.: to d. the hair, capillos medicare, Ov.: fleeces d.d at Aquinum, Aquinatem potantia vellera fucum, Hor.: to be d.d various colours, varios mentiri colores, Virg.
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• dye (subs.):
      1. 1. tinctūra: Plin. 31, 10, 46, 2.
      2. 2. expr. by tingo (v. preced. art.): to impart a blue, a purple, d., caeruleum, purpuram tingere, Plin.: the woad-plant is an excellent d. for blue, *vitro caeruleus optime tingitur color.
      3. 3. fūcus (red-d.): Hor.: Ov.
      4. 4. vĕnēnum: v. to dye (3).
      5. 5. infector succus: that well-known purple d., purpurarum infector ille s., Plin. 11, 3, 2.
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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  • v. To color (in general), Vid:
  • By a dyeing process, tingere, with anything, aliqua re (by dipping the stuff into any dyeing matter): inficere, with anything, aliqua re (to do over with anything, so that the object changes, if it does not entirely lose, its natural quality or property): imbuere aliqua re (to soak, to imbue with anything, in general) ☞ In the sense of producing a color, “tingere” is followed by the accusative of the color itself, e.g., to dye of a sea-blue or sky-blue color, caeruleum tingere; purple, purpuram tingere: this dyes a dark purple, hoc fuco hysginum tingitur: woad dyes stuffs blue or sky-blue, vitrum caeruleum efficit colorem: to dye red, rufare (i. e., a yellowish red; e.g., one’s hair, capillum): to dye dark hair red, e nigro rutilum capillum reddere: to dye anything bluish or water-colored, colore caeruleo tingere: dyed blue, caeruleatus. To be used for dyeing cloth., tingendis vestibus idoneum esse (Plin.). Dye, s, infector succus (Plin.): pigmentum: color. Vid: COLOR.