pallor

• pallour (obsolete)

From Middle English pallour, from Old French palor (“paleness, pallor”), from Latin pallor, from palleō (“look pale, blanch”).

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈpælɚ/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈpælə/

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• Rhymes: -ælə(ɹ)

pallor (countable and uncountable, plural pallors)

1. Paleness; want of color; pallidity; wanness.

   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."

   • 1900, Willa Cather, "Eric Hermannson's Soul," Cosmopolitan (April):

     Over those seamed cheeks there was a certain pallor, a grayness caught from many a vigil

   • 2019 May 16, Erik Adams, “A potent satire has its wings clipped in Catch-22”, in The A.V. Club‎:

     Catch-22 is defined by the sickly pallor of its visual palette (a jaundiced tint that at least goes with Yossarian’s point of view and phony liver pains) and the way it makes the slog of its characters’ deployment a little too literal.

• pallor on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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

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

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈpal.lor/, [ˈpälːʲɔr]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈpal.lor/, [ˈpälːor]

pallor m (genitive pallōris); third declension

1. a pale color, paleness, wanness, pallor
   • 8 CE, Ovid, Fasti 4.541:

     pallor abit, subitāsque vident in corpore vīrēs

     His pallor departs, and they see sudden vigor in his body.
     (Triptolemus, child of Celeus and Metanira, is healed by the goddess Ceres.)

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

Third-declension noun.

• (mildew): rōbīgō
• (paleness): aurūgō

• → English: pallor
• French: pâleur
• Galician: balor
• Italian: pallore
• Portuguese: bolor, palor
• Spanish: palor

• “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 with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 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