discolor

• discolour

From Old French descolorer, des- + colorer, equlvalent to dis- +‎ color.

discolor (third-person singular simple present discolors, present participle discoloring, simple past and past participle discolored)

1. (American spelling) To change or lose color.

   Washing light laundry with dark may cause your clothes to discolor.

   A bad enough bruise can discolor the skin.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈdis.ko.lor/, [ˈd̪ɪs̠kɔɫ̪ɔr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈdis.ko.lor/, [ˈd̪iskolor]

discolor (genitive discolōris); third-declension one-termination adjective

1. having a different colour
2. variegated

Third-declension one-termination adjective.

• “discolor”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “discolor”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• discolor 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)
• discolor in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Borrowed from Latin discolorus.

discolor m or n (feminine singular discoloră, masculine plural discolori, feminine and neuter plural discolore)

1. (dated) multicolored