primary colour

English

Alternative forms

primary color

Noun

primary colour (plural primary colours)

Any of three colours which, when added to or subtracted from others in different amounts, can generate all other colours
Red, blue and green are additive primary colours.

Magenta, yellow and cyan are subtractive primary colours.

Translations

any of three colours which can generate all other colours

Catalan: color primari m
Chinese:
Mandarin: 原色 (zh) (yuánsè), 基色 (jīsè)
Finnish: pääväri (fi)
Galician: cor primaria f
Greek: βασικό χρώμα n (vasikó chróma)

Gujarati: મૂળ રંગ (mūḷ raṅg)
Maori: tae mātāmua
Romanian: culoare primară f, culoare fundamentală (ro) f
Spanish: color primario m
Tagalog: pangunahing kulay

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