versicolor

• versicolōrus, versicolōrius (Post-Classical collateral form)

From versō (“turn”) + color (“colour”)

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /werˈsi.ko.lor/, [wɛrˈsɪ.kɔ.ɫɔr]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /verˈsi.ko.lor/, [verˈsiː.ko.lor]

versicolor (genitive versicolōris); third declension

1. particoloured; of various colours; that changes its colour

Third declension.

• versicolōria

• Italian: versicolore

• Propertius. In: Propertius with an English translation by H. E. Butler, 1916, p. 198f.:

  sed Chio thalamo aut Oricia terebintho
  et fultum pluma versicolore caput.

  his rather to lie in a chamber of Chian marble or on a couch of Orician terebinth, his head propped on down of rainbow hues.

• Publius Ovidius Naso, Fasti. In: Ovid's Fasti with an English translation by Sir James George Frazer, 1959, p. 286f.:

  cur tamen, ut dantur vestes Cerialibus albae,
  sic haec est cultu versicolore decens ?

  But why is it that whereas white robes are given out at the festival of Ceres, Flora is neatly clad in attire of many colours ?

• versicolor in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• versicolor in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• versicolor in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette