primary colour

See also: primary color

English

Alternative forms

• primary color (US)

Noun

primary colour (plural primary colours)

1. (British spelling) Any of three colours which, when added to or subtracted from others in different amounts, can generate all other colours

   Red, blue and green are additive primary colours.

   Magenta, yellow and cyan are subtractive primary colours.

Coordinate terms

• secondary colour
• tertiary colour

Translations

any of three colours which can generate all other colours

• Catalan: color primari m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 原色 (zh) (yuánsè), 基色 (jīsè)

• Finnish: pääväri (fi)
• French: couleur primaire (fr) f
• Galician: cor primaria f
• German: Grundfarbe (de) f, Primärfarbe (de) f
• Greek: βασικό χρώμα n (vasikó chróma)
• Gujarati: મૂળ રંગ (mūḷ raṅg)
• Japanese: 原色 (ja) (げんしょく, genshoku)
• Korean: 원색 (ko) (wonsaek)
• Maori: tae mātāmua
• Romanian: culoare primară f, culoare fundamentală (ro) f
• Spanish: color primario m
• Tagalog: pangunahing kulay