pallor

Alternative forms

• pallour (obsolete)

Etymology

From Old French palor (“paleness, pallor”), from Latin pallor, from palleō (“I am or look pale, blanch”).

Pronunciation

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• Rhymes: -ælə(r)

Noun

pallor (countable and uncountable, plural pallors)

1. Paleness; want of color; pallidity.

   pallor of the complexion

   • 1886, Robert Louis Stevenson, Strange Case Of Dr Jekyll And Mr Hyde

     "Sir," said the butler, turning to a sort of mottled pallor, "that thing was not my master, and there's the truth. My master"--here he looked round him and began to whisper--"is a tall, fine build of a man, and this was more of a dwarf."

References

• pallor in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913

Etymology

From palleō (“I am or look pale, blanch”) +‎ -or, from Proto-Indo-European *pel- (“gray”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈpal.lor/

Noun

pallor m (genitive pallōris); third declension

1. a pale color, paleness, wanness, pallor
2. (by extension) mustiness, moldiness, mildew
3. (by extension) dimness, faintness
4. (by extension) a disagreeable color or shape, unsightliness
5. (figuratively) alarm, terror

References

• pallor in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• pallor in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• pallor in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• pallor in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• pallor in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• pallor in William Smith, editor (1848) A Dictionary of Greek Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray