Sanitary Stir Verdigris

Latin sānitās, health — adjectival suffix -ary. As a color modifier, sanitary implies a clear-and-clean-and-medical quality, the crisp color of Bauhaus-and-Modern clinical-and-hospital interior-architecture white-tile-and-stainless-steel surfaces. Sits at the crisp-and-clean end of the grid, parallel to hygienic and sterile in usage.

Old English styrian, to-move-or-agitate. As a color modifier, stir implies a slow-moved-and-rippled-and-agitated quality, the visual register of cauldron-and-tea-cup-stir hand-slow-moved-and-rippled-and-agitated cauldron-and-tea-cup-and-pot-au-feu stirred-and-slow-moved-and-rippled-and-agitated surfaces under cauldron-and-tea-cup-and-pot-au-feu kitchen-hearth-and-witch's-fire-and-parlor-tea-table simmer-and-eddy-light. Sits at the modifier-and-mood end of the grid, parallel to swirl and eddy in usage.

The basic copper carbonate that forms on weathered copper and bronze — the pigment scraped from oxidized metal and used in Renaissance painting before being supplanted by more stable greens. The color refers to a thick verdigris on aged copper roofing or the Statue of Liberty's surface: a soft, slightly muted blue-green with the powdery finish of mineral oxide. Cooler than patina, warmer than seafoam, with the archaeological weight of a mineral made by time.