viola, ae, f. dim. Gr. ἴον, the violet, the stock-gillyflower. Lit., Plin. 21, 6, 14, § 27; 21, 11, 38, § 64; Verg. E. 2, 47; 10, 39.

—Collect.: an tu me in violā putabas aut in rosā dicere? Cic. Tusc. 5, 26, 73 al.

— A violet color, violet, Hor. C. 3, 10, 14; id. Ep. 2, 1, 207; Plin. 34, 12, 32, § 124; 37, 9, 40, § 121.