flower
→
colour
4 realizations
Related shifts
ID | Meaning 1 | Direction | Meaning 2 |
ACCEPTED Realization 1 | ||
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type | Polysemy | |
language | Ancient Greek | |
lexeme | ἄνθος | |
meaning 1 | flower | |
direction | — | |
meaning 2 | colour; the elect of | |
reference | LSJ | |
comment | LSJ 140 |
NEW Realization 2 | ||
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type | Semantic evolution | |
language 1 | Latin | |
language 2 | Late Latin | |
lexeme 1 | color | |
lexeme 2 | colores (pl.) | |
meaning 1 | flower | color albus white colour |
direction | → | |
meaning 2 | colour | aspice, quos submittit humus formosa colores look at the beatiful flowers that the earth gives birth to. |
reference | Dvoreckij 1958: 206 | |
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