Re: What counts as a basic color word?

Peter Clark ikrí:

>         So I happened upon a list of color words from Classical Latin and
noticed
> something rather odd:
>         albus: white
>         candidus: brilliant, bright white
>         ater: black
>         niger: shiny black
>
>         Are "candidus" and "niger" considered basic color words? And what
counts as a
> "basic" color word?
AFAIK Latin had "albus" and "niger" as basic colors. But the whole concept of
basic colors seems a bit subjective to my mind.

Yitzik