A Grammatical Dictionary of Botanical Latin

Pigment (Eng.noun):

1. coloring matter: pigmentum,-i (s.n.II), abl.sg. pigmento; tinctura,-ae (s.f.I), abl.sg. tinctura [> L. tingo, tinxi, tinctum, 3. to dye, color, tinge]: a dyeing, coloring; a substance that colors, dyes, or stains, a pigment or stain’ [> L. pigmentum,-i (s.n.II), from pingo, a material for coloring, a color, paint, pigment; also the juice of plants (Lewis and Short); > pingo, pinxi, pictum 3., to represent pictorially with the pencil or needle, to paint, embroider ... etc., to paint, stain, color with anything (Lewis & Short)]; see tint, trace, stain, dye, color.

Pigments: “Characteristic colored substances (pigments) are produced by certain lichens and fungi.” (Ainsworth & Bisby); “any of various coloring matters in animals and plants; esp. solid or opaque coloring matter in a cell or tissue” (WIII).

- pigmentum ignotum continens, containing an unknown pigment.

- pigmenta Y.P.-1, Y.P.-2, et G.P.-1 innominata continens, containing unidentified pigments Y.P.-1, Y.P.-2, G.P.-1. (Stearn, 1983).

- plantae pigmenta ferruginea continentes, plants containing ferrugineous pigments.

- [fungi] pustularum nimia minuties cultelli conamina recusat: ita et fibrillulae adeo sunt delicatae, ut merum pigmentum arbusculiforme primo obtutu facile mentiantur (S&A), the excessive minuteness of the pustules resists the efforts of the small knife: so much so delicate also are the fibrillules, as at first observation easily falsely resemble the tiny tree-like pure pigment.

- faex illa pigmentum est: siccatur id sole, & sacco cannabino percolatur, mox efformantur parvae rotae, quae catinis superpositis carbonibus solidantur, ut recondi tandem queat in annuos usus (Ray), that sediment [i.e. residue, dregs] is the pigment: it is dried in the sun, and, strained through a hempen sac, soon afterwards small wheels are formed, which, made solid in cooking pots placed over the coals, so that finally it could be stored in one-year applications.

Pigmentum accessorium (adj.A), abl.sg. pigmento accessorio: light-absorbing pigment indirectly involved in photosynthesis.

2. pigmentum,-i (s.n.II), abl.sg. pigmento: “an ingredient (in an ointment, lotion, etc.), drug.” (Glare).

Liber pigmentorum, ‘Book of Drugs,’ a reference to Galen’s Alphabet, a treatment of simple (opp. compound) drugs or medicines (Everett).