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ITALIAN COLOUR NAMES FROM THE 16TH CENTURY

16TH CENTURY COLOUR NAMES

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-A-

ARGENTINO
ASTERATICO
AZURRO

silvery, or a silver colour, like silver
a kind of sky colour. Also a stone or earth so called 
azure, blue, sky-colour 

-B-

BELTRO
BIAVO
BIGIO
BIGIUCCIA
BIONDEGGIANTE
BROCCO

a mixed colour of green, white and red 
a bright pale yellow colour
grey or russet colour 
a kind of grey or clay colour
shining yellow, or of the colour of gold 
a kind of red or yellowish colour

-C-

CARNADINO
CASTAGNATO
CEL�STE
CELESTRO
CENERICCIO
CERINO
CERUATO
CERUL�O 
CHIAROSCURO
CIANCO
CILESTRO
CITRINO
CLARETTO
COCCIN�O
COLOMBINO
CORACINO
CORALLINO
CROC�O

carnation colour
chestnut colour 
heavenly, celestial;  sky-colour, or azure and watchet 
azure, watchet, or sky-colour 
ash colour, or one that lies in the chimney-corner 
a kind of colour like yellow wax 
of the colour of a flag, a speckled dun or russet 
sky colour, azure or watchet 
a kind of dark puce colour
a kind of bright blue or azure colour
azure, blue, sky-colour or watchet;  a kind of lily
a pale yellow lemon colour 
a claret colour
dyed in grain, scarlet or crimson, of a scarlet colour 
dove colour, columbine colour 
a little heart, a bright raven or crow-black colour
coral colour, a little coral
a saffron colour

-F-

FERIGNO
FERRUGIN�O
FIAMMA DI VOLTO
FIAMM�O
FLAMM�O
FRATESCO
FULVO

cruel, fierce, of the colour or nature of iron
of an iron colour 
a blush, or maiden's blush colour 
a flame colour 
a flame colour 
friar-ish, friar-like; a grey or ash colour 
the colour of gold, or bright yellow

-G-

GIALLO
GIOGGIOLINO
GORO
GREZZA

the colour yellow 
flesh-colour, or brick colour
a kind of wine or the colour thereof 
of the colour of hemp or coarse canvas

-H-

HABANO, HABENO
HIACINTHO

black wood called Hebanie (Ebony); sable or sad colour
a precious stone called a hyacinth; purple colour 

-I-

INCARNADINO
INLIVIDITO
INLIVIDO

a carnation or flesh colour 
black, blue, wan or the colour of lead and ashes
black, blue, wan or the colour of lead and ashes

-L-

LATT�O
LEMONINO
LEONATO
LIMONCINO
LUT�O

of milk, milky, milken; milk white colour 
a kind of lemon colour
the colour of a lion, or tawny
a kind of lemon colour 
yellowish; like the yolk of an egg 

-M-

MOLICHINO
MOLOCHINO
MORATO
MORELLO
MORELLOTTO
MUSTELLINO

a kind of purple colour 
a kind of colour like a whitish purple
black, or a blackberry colour
the colour murrey, or dark red 
ruddy, red, flaming red, red hot, high or fiery-coloured 
a kind of colour like a weasel 

-O-

OROBE

a kind of grass-green colour 

-P-

PAGLIATO
PAGLICCIO
PAGONACCIO
PALOMBINO
PARDO
PAVONACCHIO
PAVONACCHIO CUPO
PEPERIGNO
PERSICHINO
PERSO
PEVERIGNO
PIOMBINO
PLOMB�O
PORPORINA
PORR�O
PRASINO
PUNICO
P�RPURA
PURPURATO
PURPUR�O

pallet, pale, or straw colour 
of a straw colour
a purple colour or French russet
a dove colour, a ring-dove colour
a deer or sandy colour
a kind of purple, puce; French russet colour 
a deep dark purple or puce colour 
the colour of pepper
a peach colour 
a dark, brown, black mourning colour 
the colour of pepper 
the colour of lead
leaden coloured 
of purple colour
of the colour of a leek 
a kind of yellowish-green; leek-green colour
a colour as red as scarlet
the purple colour 
of, or belonging to purple or purple colour 
of the colour of purple, like purple, red, bluish

-R-

RANCIA ROSSO
RANCIATO
RANZETTO
ROBBO
R�SA SECCA
ROSAC�O
ROSATO
ROS�O
ROSSETTO
ROSSICCIO
RUBECCHIO
R�BIDO
RUFFO

orange tawney colour, almost like red 
orange tawney colour
of the colour of raw silk 
also red or ruddy-coloured
rose colour 
of the colour of roses
of the colour of roses; rose colour
a kind of rose colour 
somewhat red, ruddy; russet; a blush colour
reddish, ruddy, inclining to red; a blush colour 
red, reddish, ruddy, sanguine colour
a kind of dark, deep red colour 
a red colour

-S-

SAMBUCATO
SBIADATO
SBIANCIOLO
SCARLATINO
SCARLATO 
SCALATTO
SILAC�O
SOLFOR�O
SPADICE
SPADICO

a green colour called alder tree colour 
azure or bright sky colour 
straw-colour 
stammell red; scarlet
scarlet cloth, scarlet colour
scarlet cloth, scarlet colour 
of yellow colour 
of the colour of brimstone (sulphur)
a scarlet or red colour 
a scarlet or red colour 

-T-

TALODINO
TAN�
THALASIO
THESSALICO
TORCHINO
TURCHINA
TURCHINO

a kind of tawney colour 
tawney colour 
a sea-water green colour 
a kind of purple colour 
blue colour
Turquoise; blue, azure or sky colour
blue, azure, watchet, or bisque colour

-U-

ULIVALE
ULIVASTRO

inclining to the colour of olives
brown, or of the colour of olives

-V-

VENETO
VERDEGIALLO
VERDONE
VERMIGLIO
VIOLAC�O
VIOLATO 
VIOLETTO
VIOLETTINO
VOLTORINO

a light or Venice blue, a Turquoise colour
a yellowish green 
a kind of dark French green 
red or vermilion colour
a kind of purple or violet colour. Also like a violet
a violet colour, a purple, a puce, or a French russet
a violet or purple colour, or a kind of French russet 
a violet or purple colour, or a kind of French russet 
a kind of grey colour 

-Z-

ZALOLINO 

a kind of pale wan colour

 

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:: Male & Female Colour Names :: More Colour Names :: Period Mongolian Names Of Colours ::
:: Abenaki Colours :: Lakhota Colours :: Colours In Cherokee :: Colours In Aymara :: Ojibwe Colours ::
:: Basque Names Of Colours :: Colours In Persian :: Colours In Euskera :: Gaelic Names For Colour ::
:: Female Names That Mean Golden :: Colour Names Links :: 16th Century Italian Colour Names ::
:: Silvery Names :: White Names :: Back to NATURE NAMES ::

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