coloris

Borrowed from Italian colorito with change of suffix. By surface analysis, colorer +‎ -is. Related to couleur.

• IPA^(key): /kɔ.lɔ.ʁi/

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coloris m (invariable)

1. act of mixing colors
2. a mix of color
3. (figuratively) style, panache

• colorier
  • coloriage

• “coloris”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [kɔˈɫoː.rɪs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [koˈlɔː.ris]

colōris

1. genitive singular of color and colōs

coloris

1. second-person plural present indicative of colorir