verde

it-noun

verde m (plural verdi, diminutive verdìno or verdolìno or verdétto, augmentative verdóne, diminutive-derogatory verdìgno or verdógnolo)

verdi (plural)
verdìno (diminutive)
verdolìno (diminutive)
verdétto (diminutive)
verdóne (augmentative)

From Vulgar Latin virdis, syncopated from Classical Latin viridis, from vireō. Cognate with English verdure, French vert, and various Romance homonyms.


verde

Ladino: vedre

Spanish: verde (see there for further descendants)

From Vulgar Latin virdis, syncopated from Classical Latin viridis.

Yo maestro Gonçalvo de Verçeo nomnado
Iendo en romeria caeçi en un prado
Verde e bien sençido, de flores bien poblado,
Logar cobdiçiaduero pora omne cansado.

13th century, Gonzalo de Berceo, “Introducción”, in Milagros de Nuestra Señora:

I mister Gonçalvo de Verçeo am called,
 wending upon a pilgrimage, came to a meadow's side,
all green and not much pastured upon, with many flowers,
an enticing spot for the weary men to abide.


verde

pt-adj

verde m or f (plural verdes, diminutive verdinho)

Guinea-Bissau Creole: verdi

Kabuverdianu: verdi

Papiamentu: bèrdè

From Old Galician-Portuguese verde (“green”), from Vulgar Latin virdis, syncopated from Classical Latin viridis (“green”). Doublet of víride, which was borrowed from Latin.
Cognate with Galician, Spanish, Italian, and Romanian verde, Catalan and Occitan verd, French vert and English vert, virid.

cog

(of fruit) unripe; green (not ripe, not ready to eat)

(figuratively) unripe; green (not fully developed)

environmentally friendly
environmentally friendly


verde

verzi (plural)
verde (indefinite masculine neuter singular)
verde (feminine indefinite singular)
verzi (indefinite masculine plural)
verzi (feminine indefinite neuter plural)
verdele (definite masculine neuter singular)
verdea (definite feminine singular)
verzii (definite masculine plural)
verzile (definite feminine neuter plural)
verzi (feminine indefinite singular)
verdelui (definite masculine neuter singular)
verzii (definite feminine singular)
verzilor (definite masculine plural)
verzilor (definite feminine neuter plural)

Inherited from Vulgar Latin virdis, syncopated from Classical Latin viridis. Related to English verdure.


verde

verde (accusative indefinite nominative)
verdele (accusative definite nominative)
verde (indefinite)
verdelui (definite)
verde (vocative)


verde

→ Aklanon: berde

→ Basque: berde

→ Cebuano: berde

→ Chamorro: betde

→ Hiligaynon: berde

→ Inabaknon: berde

→ Tagalog: berde

Inherited from Old Spanish verde, from Vulgar Latin virdis, syncopated from Classical Latin viridis. Cognate with English verdure and verdant, Catalan verd, French vert, as well as various Romance homonyms.


monocle

1886, borrowed from French monocle, from Late Latin monoculus (“one-eyed”), from mono- (“single”) + oculus (“eye”).

A single lens, usually in a wire frame, and used to correct vision for only one eye.


monocle

nl-noun

monocle m (plural monocles, diminutive monocletje n)

monocles (plural)
monocletje (diminutive neuter)


monocle

→ Greek: μονόκλ (monókl)

→ Dutch: monocle

→ English: monocle

From Late Latin monoculus (“one-eyed”), from mono- (“single”) + oculus (“eye”).


colorless

en-adj

colorless (comparative more colorless, superlative most colorless)

more colorless (comparative)
most colorless (superlative)

The servant to whom he put this question was a young fellow with chubby cheeks, small, dull eyes, and a round chin, covered with a colorless down.

1867, Ivan Sergheïevitch Turgenef [i.e., Ivan Turgenev], chapter I, in Eugene Schuyler, transl., Fathers and Sons […], New York, N.Y.: Leypoldt and Holt, →OCLC, page 1:


fuscous

fuscous (comparative more fuscous, superlative most fuscous)

more fuscous (comparative)
most fuscous (superlative)

From Latin fusc(us) (“dark, dusky”) + -ous.

‘Fresh, fresh, fresh,’ one commented in deep bass on the departing soldier, and the other nodded assent, though in that cave of spoiled air and fuscous lamplight the word ‘fresh’ was misleading […].

1928, Edmund Blunden, Undertones of War, Penguin, published 2010, page 140:

Of a dark, brownish-grey color; dark-hued, dusky, swarthy.


boro

From Proto-Mongolic *böxere, from Proto-Turkic *bögür.
Compare Mongolian бөөр (böör), Turkish böbrek.


boro

From Proto-Mongolic *bora, from Proto-Turkic *boŕ.
Compare Mongolian бор (bor), Turkish boz.


boro

Perhaps the same as the second etymology.


bubblegum

en-noun

bubblegum (countable and uncountable, plural bubblegums)

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-bubblegum.wav

(usually uncountable) A sweet chewing gum formulated to be stretchy so the chewer can blow bubbles with it.

Born in the small town of Rockwood, east Tennessee, Carter’s bubblegum sound and mini-bad boy image made him the definitive millennium child star.

2022 November 6, Emma Garland, “Aaron Carter was the millennium’s bubblegum bad boy – and the victim of a rapacious music industry”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:

(music, sometimes derogatory) A type of pop music marked by sweetness, pep and charm (rather than depth or complexity).

bubblegum:

(countable and uncountable) A light pink colour, like bubblegum.


bubblegum

(by extension) Sweet, perky, or youthful.


grigio

Borrowed from Old French or Old Occitan, both from Frankish *grīs, from Proto-Germanic *grēwaz (“grey”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰreh₁wos (“grey”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰreh₁- (“to glow, shine”). Akin to Old High German grīs (“grey”) (German greis), Old English grīs (“grey”), Old High German grāo (“grey”), Old English grǣġ (“grey”), Old Norse grār (“grey”). More at grizzle, grey. Cognate with Sicilian grisu/griciu.


eye chart

The doctor said I needed glasses after I failed to read past the fourth line on the eye chart.

A sign or poster showing letters or symbols in progressively smaller lines of type, used to test distance vision.


brandgul

brandgul (indefinite positive)
mer brandgul (comparative indefinite)
mest brandgul (indefinite superlative)
brandgult (indefinite neuter positive singular)
mer brandgult (comparative indefinite neuter singular)
mest brandgult (indefinite neuter singular superlative)
brandgula (indefinite plural positive)
mer brandgula (comparative indefinite plural)
mest brandgula (indefinite plural superlative)
brandgule (archaic indefinite masculine plural positive)
mer brandgula (archaic comparative indefinite masculine plural)
mest brandgula (archaic indefinite masculine plural superlative)
brandgule (definite masculine positive singular)
mer brandgule (comparative definite masculine singular)
mest brandgule (definite masculine singular superlative)
brandgula (definite positive)
mer brandgula (comparative definite)
mest brandgula (definite superlative)

the comfortably fat cat in his best years, the orange entertainer (of Garfield, the cartoon cat)

den lagom tjocke katten i sina bästa år, den brandgule glädjespridaren (om Gustaf, den tecknade katten)

having the colour orange, flame-coloured


cornea

en-noun

cornea (plural corneas or corneae or (archaic) corneæ)

corneas (plural)
corneae (plural)
corneæ (archaic plural)

From Latin cornea tela (“horny tissue”), from cornu (“horn”).

Or instead of treating them with the developing solution, the corneæ may be removed to a warm, concentrated solution of tartaric acid and remain there at the temperature of an incubating stove until the gold is fully reduced.

1885, Arthur Bolles Lee, chapter XI, in The Microtomist’s Vade‐Mecum, P. Blakiston, Son & Co, page 93:

In the lateral view (fig. 26) the corneae seemed very flat, their convexity not exceeding that of the bulbi (cornea plana?);

1969, P. P. H. Alkemade, Dysgenesis Mesodermalis of the Iris and the Cornea: A Study of Rieger’s Syndrome and Peter’s Anomaly, page 119:

The corneae were swollen without major infiltrates similar to longstanding disciform edema.

1981, R. Sundmacher, D. Neumann-Haefelin, A. Mattes, K. Cantell, “Connatal Monosymptomatic Corneal Endotheliitis by Cytomegalovirus”, in Herpetic Eye Diseases, J.F. Bergmann Verlag, →ISBN, page 501:

It is well known that in clinical practice the corneae from eyes enucleated for malignant melanoma of posterior choroid are usually utilized for corneal grafting. This research refers to cases of posterior melanomas which extended anteriorly, in which the utilization of the corneae for grafting was doubtful.

1983, A. Loffredo, G. Cennamo, A. De Lellis, A. Sammartino, A. Del Prete, “Echographic Pattern Evaluation of Eyes with Choroid Melanoma for Corneal Graft Utilization”, in Jeffrey S. Hillman, Malcolm M. Le May, editors, Ophthalmic Ultrasonography: Proceedings of the 9th SIDUO Congress, Leeds, U.K. July 20-23, 1982, Dr W. Junk Publishers, Kluwer Academic Publishers Group, →ISBN, page 43:

(anatomy) The transparent layer making up the outermost front part of the eye, covering the iris, pupil, and anterior chamber.


amaranth

amaranth (countable and uncountable, plural amaranths)

Borrowed from French amarante, or directly from its etymon Latin amarantus (the word ending influenced by plant names derived from Ancient Greek ἄνθος (ánthos, “a bloom, blossom, flower”)), from Ancient Greek ἀμάραντος (amárantos, “eternal, undying, unfading, unwilting; amaranth; everlasting flower”) (modern Greek αμάραντος (amárantos)), from ᾰ̓- (a-, the alpha privativum, a prefix forming words having a sense opposite to the word or stem to which it is attached) + μαραίνω (maraínō, “to shrivel, wither”) + -τος (-tos, suffix forming adjectives).

edible amaranth

Chinese amaranth, Ganges amaranth, willow-leaf amaranth; Amaranthus tricolor

Amaranth, the most common red food colour in both the US and UK, was banned last week in the US after a study suggested that it caused cancer in rats. […] The situation is confused, however, because the test rats were mixed up with the controls in the US tests, and because some tests have indicated hazards while similar tests show the dye to be safe. In April 1975, the joint FAO/WHO Expert Committee on Food Additives (JECFA) gave amaranth temporary approval through 1978.

1976 January 29, “US Bans Commonest Red Food Colour”, in Bernard Dixon, editor, New Scientist, volume 69, number 985, London: New Science Publications, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 234, column 1:

Amaranth is a red azo-dye with the chemical name trisodium 2-hydroxyl-1-(4-sulfonato-1-naphthylazo)naphthalene-3,6-disulfonate […]. Amaranth appears to be relatively unstable in solution and in processed food. Biscuits containing Amaranth showed a loss of 39–45% promoted by the use of baking soda, sucrose, and dextrose. The degradation of Amaranth may lead to the presence of naphthenic acid equivalent to the loss of Amaranth.

2015, J. König, “Food Colour Additives of Synthetic Origin”, in Michael J. Scotter, editor, Colour Additives for Foods and Beverages (Woodhead Publishing Series in Food Science, Technology and Nutrition; no. 279), Amsterdam: Elsevier; Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Woodhead Publishing, →ISBN, part 1 (Development and Regulatory Issues for Food Colourings), section 2.2.4 (Amaranth), page 41:

(organic chemistry) A red to purple azo dye used as a biological stain, and in some countries in cosmetics and as a food colouring. See Amaranth (dye).


γαλακτικός

γᾰλακτῐκός (canonical)
galaktikós (romanization)
γᾰλακτῐκή (feminine)
γᾰλακτῐκόν (neuter)
γᾰλᾰκτῐκός (masculine nominative singular)
γᾰλᾰκτῐκή (feminine nominative singular)
γᾰλᾰκτῐκόν (neuter nominative singular)
γᾰλᾰκτῐκώ (dual masculine nominative)
γᾰλᾰκτῐκᾱ́ (dual feminine nominative)
γᾰλᾰκτῐκώ (dual neuter nominative)
γᾰλᾰκτῐκοί (masculine nominative plural)
γᾰλᾰκτῐκαί (feminine nominative plural)
γᾰλᾰκτῐκᾰ́ (neuter nominative plural)
γᾰλᾰκτῐκοῦ (genitive masculine singular)
γᾰλᾰκτῐκῆς (feminine genitive singular)
γᾰλᾰκτῐκοῦ (genitive neuter singular)
γᾰλᾰκτῐκοῖν (dual genitive masculine)
γᾰλᾰκτῐκαῖν (dual feminine genitive)
γᾰλᾰκτῐκοῖν (dual genitive neuter)
γᾰλᾰκτῐκῶν (genitive masculine plural)
γᾰλᾰκτῐκῶν (feminine genitive plural)
γᾰλᾰκτῐκῶν (genitive neuter plural)
γᾰλᾰκτῐκῷ (dative masculine singular)
γᾰλᾰκτῐκῇ (dative feminine singular)
γᾰλᾰκτῐκῷ (dative neuter singular)
γᾰλᾰκτῐκοῖν (dative dual masculine)
γᾰλᾰκτῐκαῖν (dative dual feminine)
γᾰλᾰκτῐκοῖν (dative dual neuter)
γᾰλᾰκτῐκοῖς (dative masculine plural)
γᾰλᾰκτῐκαῖς (dative feminine plural)
γᾰλᾰκτῐκοῖς (dative neuter plural)
γᾰλᾰκτῐκόν (accusative masculine singular)
γᾰλᾰκτῐκήν (accusative feminine singular)
γᾰλᾰκτῐκόν (accusative neuter singular)
γᾰλᾰκτῐκώ (accusative dual masculine)
γᾰλᾰκτῐκᾱ́ (accusative dual feminine)
γᾰλᾰκτῐκώ (accusative dual neuter)
γᾰλᾰκτῐκούς (accusative masculine plural)
γᾰλᾰκτῐκᾱ́ς (accusative feminine plural)
γᾰλᾰκτῐκᾰ́ (accusative neuter plural)
γᾰλᾰκτῐκέ (masculine singular vocative)
γᾰλᾰκτῐκή (feminine singular vocative)
γᾰλᾰκτῐκόν (neuter singular vocative)
γᾰλᾰκτῐκώ (dual masculine vocative)
γᾰλᾰκτῐκᾱ́ (dual feminine vocative)
γᾰλᾰκτῐκώ (dual neuter vocative)
γᾰλᾰκτῐκοί (masculine plural vocative)
γᾰλᾰκτῐκαί (feminine plural vocative)
γᾰλᾰκτῐκᾰ́ (neuter plural vocative)
γᾰλᾰκτῐκῶς (adverbial feminine masculine neuter)
γᾰλᾰκτῐκώτερος (comparative feminine masculine neuter)
γᾰλᾰκτῐκώτᾰτος (feminine masculine neuter superlative)

→ Albanian: galaktika

Greek: γαλακτικός (galaktikós)

→ Latin: galacticus (see there for further descendants)

desctree

→ Russian: гала́ктика (galáktika)
→ Kazakh: галактика (galaktika)
→ Uzbek: galaktika

→ Ukrainian: гала́ктика (haláktyka)


perse

en-noun

perse (countable and uncountable, plural perses)

From Middle English pers, from Old French, from Medieval Latin persus, back-formed from Persicus (“Persian”), from Ancient Greek Περσικός (Persikós).

A very dark (almost black) purple or blue-gray colour.


perse

Very dark greyish (almost blackish) purple or blue.


perse

en-verb

perse (third-person singular simple present perses, present participle persing, simple past and past participle persed or perst)

perses (present singular third-person)
persing (participle present)
persed (participle past)
persed (past)
perst (participle past)
perst (past)


azzurro

it-adj

azzurro (feminine azzurra, masculine plural azzurri, feminine plural azzurre)

azzurra (feminine)
azzurri (masculine plural)
azzurre (feminine plural)

From Old French azur, from Arabic لَازَوَرْد (lāzaward, “lapis lazuli”), from Persian لاجورد (lâjvard, “lapis lazuli”). Cognate with English azure, French azur, and Portuguese and Spanish azul.

acquamarina

a colour/color between celeste and light green

light blue, azure, sky blue (especially the light blue colour/color of the sky)


bifocals

From bi- + focal (see focus), coined in 1824 by John Isaac Hawkins, inventor of trifocals. When the concept of bifocals was originally conceived by Benjamin Franklin, he called them double spectacles.

He unfolded a pair of bifocals and thrust them as far up the bridge of his nose as possible.

2002, Zadie Smith, The Autograph Man, Penguin Books (2003), page 116:

Spectacles that have corrective lenses of two different powers; used by people who need both distance and reading glasses.


blue-black

blue-black:


blue-black

en-adj

blue-black (comparative more blue-black, superlative most blue-black)

more blue-black (comparative)
most blue-black (superlative)


giallo

it-adj

giallìno,giallétto<pos:also “sweet yellow flour roll with raisins” as a noun, in the Veneto>,giallolìno<pos:also “Naples yellow” as a noun>

giallo (feminine gialla, masculine plural gialli, feminine plural gialle, diminutive giallìno or giallétto (also “sweet yellow flour roll with raisins” as a noun, in the Veneto) or giallolìno (also “Naples yellow” as a noun), augmentative giallóne, pejorative giallàccio, derogatory giallùccio)

gialla (feminine)
gialli (masculine plural)
gialle (feminine plural)
giallìno (diminutive)
giallétto (also diminutive noun)
giallolìno (also diminutive noun)
giallóne (augmentative)
giallàccio (pejorative)
giallùccio (derogatory)

Borrowed from Old French jalne (variant of jaune), from Latin galbinus. Crime fiction sense derives from the yellow covers of cheap crime literature.


giallo

detective fiction, detective novel, detective story; crime fiction; whodunit; pulp fiction


aubergine

en-noun

aubergine (countable and uncountable, plural aubergines)

Bislama: obesin

Unadapted borrowing from French aubergine, from Catalan albergínia, from Arabic اَلْبَاذِنْجَان (al-bāḏinjān, “the aubergine”), from Persian بادنجان (bâdenjân), from باتنجان (bâtenjân), from Sanskrit वातिगगम (vātigagama, “the plant that cures the wind”), cognate with Malayalam വഴുതന (vaḻutana). Doublet of brinjal.

der

اَلْبَاذِنْجَان

aubergine:


aubergine

nl-noun

aubergine f (plural aubergines, diminutive auberginetje n)

aubergines (plural)
auberginetje (diminutive neuter)

Unadapted borrowing from French aubergine, from Catalan albergínia, from Arabic اَلْبَاذِنْجَان (al-bāḏinjān, “the eggplant”), from Classical Persian بادنجان (bâdenjân), from باتنجان (bâtenjân), from Sanskrit वातिगगम (vātigagama, “eggplant”, literally “the plant that cures the wind”).

der

اَلْبَاذِنْجَان


aubergine

aubergine (indefinite nominative singular)
aubergines (genitive indefinite singular)
auberginen (definite nominative singular)
auberginens (definite genitive singular)
auberginer (indefinite nominative plural)
auberginers (genitive indefinite plural)
auberginerna (definite nominative plural)
auberginernas (definite genitive plural)

Unadapted borrowing from French aubergine.

eggplant, aubergine (fruit, plant, color)


sable

en-noun

sable (countable and uncountable, plural sables)

Attested since 1275, from Middle English sable, from Old French sable and martre sable (“sable marten”), in reference to the animal or its fur; from Medieval Latin sabelum, from Middle Low German sabel (compare Middle Dutch sabel, Middle High German zobel); ultimately from a Slavic word (compare Russian со́боль (sóbolʹ), Polish soból, Czech sobol). Compare also Middle Persian smwl (*samōr).

sable (heraldry):

(heraldry) A black colour on a coat of arms (Wikipedia).


sable

en-adj

sable (comparative sabler, superlative sablest)

sabler (comparative)
sablest (superlative)

(heraldry): In blazon, of the colour black.

Some of the sable females, who formerly stood aloof, now began to relax and appear less coy; but my heart was still fixed on London, where I hoped to be ere long.

1789, Olaudah Equiano, chapter 7, in The Interesting Narrative, volume I:

Ethnologists are in the wrong / About our sable brothers[.]

1880 June 19, Henry Kendall, “My Piccaninny”, in The Australian Town and Country Journal, page 28, column 4:

Of this one of the drovers writes thus: - "Very soon there will be homesteads and stations dotted all over the Territory within easy distances of one another, driving our sable brethren from their ancient hunting grounds."

1887, Harriet W. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 281:

For twelve long months I had to pace, / Humping my swag with a cadging face, / Sleeping in the bush, like the sable race.

1905, Banjo Paterson, Old Bush Songs, page 40:

(archaic, literary) Dark-skinned; Black.


sable

From Old French martre sable (“sable marten”), an animal. From Middle Low German sabel (compare Middle Dutch sabel, Middle High German zobel); ultimately from a Balto-Slavic word (compare Russian со́боль (sóbolʹ), Polish soból, Czech sobol). Compare also Persian سمور (samur). Doublet of zibeline.

der

(heraldry) the heraldic colour sable; black


sable

(heraldry) sable (of black colour on a coat of arms)


sable

(heraldry) sable (the black colour on coats of arms)


karat

id-noun

karat (plural karat-karat, first-person possessive karatku, second-person possessive karatmu, third-person possessive karatnya)

karat-karat (plural)
karatku (first-person possessive)
karatmu (possessive second-person)
karatnya (possessive third-person)

karat:

karat:


karat

ms-noun

karat (Jawi spelling کارت, plural karat-karat, informal 1st possessive karatku, 2nd possessive karatmu, 3rd possessive karatnya)

کارت (Jawi)
karat-karat (plural)
karatku (first-person informal possessive)
karatmu (possessive second-person)
karatnya (possessive third-person)

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *karat (“rust”).

karat:

karat:


swart

af-adj

swart </b>or (chiefly of people or in figurative use)<b> swarte

swart (attributive swart or (chiefly of people or in figurative use) swarte, comparative swarter, superlative swartste)

swart (attributive)
swarte (attributive)
swarter (comparative)
swartste (superlative)
swart (positive predicative)
swart (attributive positive)
swarte (attributive positive)
swarte (attributive independent positive singular)
swartes (attributive independent plural positive)
swarts (partitive positive)
swarter (attributive comparative predicative)
swartere (attributive comparative independent singular)
swarteres (attributive comparative independent plural)
swarters (comparative partitive)
swartste (attributive predicative superlative)
swartste (singular superlative)
swartstes (attributive independent plural superlative)

From Dutch zwart, from Proto-Germanic *swartaz.

’n swart kat

’n swart(e) dag

’n swart(e) vriend


swart

swart (adjective indefinite masculine nominative)
swarte (adjective feminine indefinite nominative)
swart (adjective indefinite neuter nominative)
swarte (adjective indefinite nominative plural)
swarte (adjective definite masculine nominative)
swarte (adjective definite feminine nominative)
swarten (accusative adjective indefinite masculine)
swarte (accusative adjective feminine indefinite)
swart (accusative adjective indefinite neuter)
swarte (accusative adjective indefinite plural)
swarte (accusative adjective definite masculine)
swarts (adjective genitive indefinite masculine)
swarter (adjective feminine genitive indefinite)
swarts (adjective genitive indefinite neuter)
swarter (adjective genitive indefinite plural)
swarts (adjective definite genitive masculine)
swarten (adjective definite genitive masculine)
swarts (adjective definite feminine genitive)
swarten (adjective definite feminine genitive)
swarten (adjective dative masculine)
swarter (adjective dative feminine)
swarten (adjective dative neuter)
swarten (adjective dative plural)

Dutch: zwart

Afrikaans: swart

Limburgish: zwart

West Flemish: zwort

From Old Dutch swart, from Proto-West Germanic *swart, from Proto-Germanic *swartaz.


swart

head

swart (plural and weak singular swarte, comparative swarter)

swarte (plural)
swarte (singular weak)
swarter (comparative)

English: swart, swarth

Scots: swart

From Old English sweart, from Proto-West Germanic *swart, from Proto-Germanic *swartaz; compare Middle Dutch swart, Middle Low German swart, Middle High German swarz.

Black-skinned, swarthy; having dark skin.

Black; swart.
(rare) Bruised, heavily wounded.


swart

osx-decl-adj

swart

swart (masculine nominative singular strong)
swarte (masculine nominative plural strong)
swarta (masculine nominative plural strong)
swart (feminine nominative singular strong)
swarta (feminine nominative plural strong)
swart (neuter nominative singular strong)
swart (neuter nominative plural strong)
swarta (neuter nominative plural strong)
swartan (accusative masculine singular strong)
swarten (accusative masculine singular strong)
swarta (accusative masculine plural strong)
swarte (accusative masculine plural strong)
swarta (accusative feminine singular strong)
swarta (accusative feminine plural strong)
swart (accusative neuter singular strong)
swart (accusative neuter plural strong)
swarta (accusative neuter plural strong)
swartes (genitive masculine singular strong)
swartas (genitive masculine singular strong)
swartaro (genitive masculine plural strong)
swartoro (genitive masculine plural strong)
swartero (genitive masculine plural strong)
swartara (feminine genitive singular strong)
swartaro (feminine genitive singular strong)
swartaro (feminine genitive plural strong)
swartoro (feminine genitive plural strong)
swartero (feminine genitive plural strong)
swartes (genitive neuter singular strong)
swartas (genitive neuter singular strong)
swartaro (genitive neuter plural strong)
swartoro (genitive neuter plural strong)
swartero (genitive neuter plural strong)
swartumu (dative masculine singular strong)
swartum (dative masculine singular strong)
swartun (dative masculine singular strong)
swarton (dative masculine singular strong)
swarten (dative masculine singular strong)
swartan (dative masculine singular strong)
swartun (dative masculine plural strong)
swarton (dative masculine plural strong)
swartum (dative masculine plural strong)
swartaro (dative feminine singular strong)
swartaru (dative feminine singular strong)
swartara (dative feminine singular strong)
swartun (dative feminine plural strong)
swarton (dative feminine plural strong)
swartumu (dative neuter singular strong)
swartum (dative neuter singular strong)
swartun (dative neuter singular strong)
swarton (dative neuter singular strong)
swarten (dative neuter singular strong)
swartan (dative neuter singular strong)
swartun (dative neuter plural strong)
swarton (dative neuter plural strong)
swartum (dative neuter plural strong)
swarto (masculine nominative singular weak)
swarta (masculine nominative singular weak)
swarton (masculine nominative plural weak)
swartun (masculine nominative plural weak)
swarta (feminine nominative singular weak)
swarte (feminine nominative singular weak)
swarton (feminine nominative plural weak)
swartun (feminine nominative plural weak)
swartan (feminine nominative plural weak)
swarta (neuter nominative singular weak)
swarte (neuter nominative singular weak)
swarton (neuter nominative plural weak)
swartun (neuter nominative plural weak)
swarton (accusative masculine singular weak)
swartan (accusative masculine singular weak)
swarton (accusative masculine plural weak)
swartun (accusative masculine plural weak)
swartun (accusative feminine singular weak)
swarton (accusative feminine singular weak)
swartan (accusative feminine singular weak)
swarton (accusative feminine plural weak)
swartun (accusative feminine plural weak)
swartan (accusative feminine plural weak)
swarta (accusative neuter singular weak)
swarte (accusative neuter singular weak)
swarton (accusative neuter plural weak)
swartun (accusative neuter plural weak)
swarten (genitive masculine singular weak)
swartan (genitive masculine singular weak)
swartono (genitive masculine plural weak)
swarteno (genitive masculine plural weak)
swartun (feminine genitive singular weak)
swartan (feminine genitive singular weak)
swarten (feminine genitive singular weak)
swartono (feminine genitive plural weak)
swarten (genitive neuter singular weak)
swartan (genitive neuter singular weak)
swartono (genitive neuter plural weak)
swarteno (genitive neuter plural weak)
swarton (dative masculine singular weak)
swarten (dative masculine singular weak)
swartan (dative masculine singular weak)
swarton (dative masculine plural weak)
swartun (dative masculine plural weak)
swartun (dative feminine singular weak)
swartan (dative feminine singular weak)
swarton (dative feminine plural weak)
swartun (dative feminine plural weak)
swarton (dative neuter singular weak)
swarten (dative neuter singular weak)
swartan (dative neuter singular weak)
swarton (dative neuter plural weak)
swartun (dative neuter plural weak)

Middle Low German: swart

Low German:

German Low German: swart, schwart

Hamburgisch: swatt

Westphalian:

Münsterländisch: swatt

Paderbornisch: schwart

Lippisch: schwart

Ravensbergisch: swārt, swat

Sauerländisch: schwart, schwatt, schwuat, schwoart, schwuart, schwoert

Westmünsterländisch: schwatt, schwott, schwart

→ German: schwatt

Plautdietsch: schwoat

→ Danish: sværte (“black dye”)

From Proto-West Germanic *swart, from Proto-Germanic *swartaz.


swart

swart (adverbial positive predicative)
swarter (adverbial comparative predicative)
it swartst (adverbial predicative superlative)
it swartste (adverbial predicative superlative)
swarte (common-gender indefinite positive singular)
swartere (common-gender comparative indefinite singular)
swartste (common-gender indefinite singular superlative)
swart (indefinite neuter positive singular)
swarter (comparative indefinite neuter singular)
swartste (indefinite neuter singular superlative)
swarte (indefinite plural positive)
swartere (comparative indefinite plural)
swartste (indefinite plural superlative)
swarte (definite positive)
swartere (comparative definite)
swartste (definite superlative)
swarts (partitive positive)
swarters (comparative partitive)

From Old Frisian swart, swert, from Proto-West Germanic *swart, from Proto-Germanic *swartaz.


kelly green

American coinage, in reference to the Irish surname Kelly and the association of Ireland with the color green.

kelly green:

They were on their way to a clambake, a Friday night with friends at the marina. Wearing a kelly green tennis dress with white espadrilles, she was carrying a sheet cake resembling a flag, blueberries and strawberries as the stars and stripes arranged across a layer of whipped cream.

2022, Ling Ma, “Tomorrow”, in Bliss Montage, New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, →ISBN:


forest green

forest green:

A dark green colour, like that of forest foliage.


forest green

Of a dark green colour, like that of forest foliage.


olive drab

en-noun

olive drab (countable and uncountable, plural olive drabs)

BS 381C olive drab:

FS 595 olive drab:

RAL 6022 olive drab:

X11 olive drab:

A greyish green colour, like that of a ripe green olive; almost invariably with a matte finish.

Cloth of an olive drab colour, used often for military uniforms.


olive drab

Of a greyish green colour, like that of a ripe green olive.


Alice blue

From the name of Alice Roosevelt Longworth (daughter of Theodore Roosevelt), who favoured the colour and made it fashionable in the US.


slate blue

slate blue (countable and uncountable, plural slate blues)

slate blue:

liuskeenharmaa

dark bluish-grey colour — see also slate, slate gray, blue-gray


peacock blue

peacock blue (countable and uncountable, plural peacock blues)

peacock blue:

A brilliant, dark blue-green colour, like the plumage of a peacock.


peacock blue

Jo read the following words, inscribed in peacock blue ink, in a near cursive hand.

1980 April 19, Andrea Loewenstein, “Random Lust”, in Gay Community News, page 10:


hunter green

hunter green (usually uncountable, plural hunter greens)

hunter green:

It is not, thank God, hunter green, the green that for a decade now has permeated every product line from polo shirts to potato peeler handles

2000, Rob Levandoski, Serendipity green, page 115:


vida

eo-head

vida (accusative singular vidan, plural vidaj, accusative plural vidajn)

vidan (accusative singular)
vidaj (plural)
vidajn (accusative plural)

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antique brass

A brownish yellow colour, like that of brass, but darker.


antique brass

Of a brownish yellow colour, like that of brass, but darker.


battleship grey

en-noun

battleship grey (countable and uncountable, plural battleship greys)

battleship grey:

A medium grey colour tinged with blue, like that of a battleship.


battleship grey

Of a medium grey colour tinged with blue, like that of a battleship.


apple-green

apple-green (countable and uncountable, plural apple-greens)

apple-green:

bright apple-green:

A bright green colour with a light tint of yellow, like that of a Granny Smith apple.


bronze yellow

bronze yellow:

A yellowish brown colour, like that of bronze.


bronze yellow

en-adj

bronze yellow (comparative more bronze yellow, superlative most bronze yellow)

more bronze yellow (comparative)
most bronze yellow (superlative)

Of a yellowish brown colour, like that of bronze.


blue violet

en-noun

blue violet (countable and uncountable, plural blue violets)

blue violet:


burlywood

burlywood:

A brown sandy colour, of RGB hexadecimal value #DEB887.


carroty

en-adj

carroty (comparative more carroty, superlative most carroty)

more carroty (comparative)
most carroty (superlative)

The pupil, thus affectionately invoked, at length came stumbling into the room; a queer, shambling, ill-made urchin, who, by his stunted growth, seemed about twelve or thirteen years old, though he was probably, in reality, a year or two older, with a carroty pate in huge disorder, a freckled, sunburnt visage, with a snub nose, a long chin, and two peery grey eyes […]

1821 January 8, [Walter Scott], Kenilworth; a Romance. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] Archibald Constable and Co.; and John Ballantyne, […]; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co., →OCLC:

"All the north is seething," said Gerard. "We must contrive to agitate the metropolis," said Maclast, a shrewd carroty-haired paper-stainer.

1845, B[enjamin] Disraeli, chapter VIII, in Sybil; or The Two Nations. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, book V, page 101:

Resembling carrots in colour, taste, shape etc.

marchewkowy

resembling carrots in colour, taste, etc.


cinereous

cinereous (comparative more cinereous, superlative most cinereous)

more cinereous (comparative)
most cinereous (superlative)

Latin cinereus, from cinis, cineris (“ashes”).


cool gray

cool gray:


clair de lune

Borrowed from French clair de lune (“moonlight”).

clair de lune:


cornsilk

cornsilk:

A very light yellow colour, like that of corn silk.

Alternative form of corn silk (the thready fibres of stigmata of corn (maize))


cornsilk

Of a very light yellow colour, like that of corn silk.


royal blue

royal blue (comparative more royal blue, superlative most royal blue)

more royal blue (comparative)
most royal blue (superlative)


Cambridge blue

en-noun

Cambridge blue (countable and uncountable, plural Cambridge blues)

Perhaps related to the colour of a body of water: Cambridge has a famous boating club, and at one time used light blue as a school colour. "The greening of Cambridge blue is often attributed to Alf Twinn, university boatman between 1934 and 1984, who, either because he wanted to distinguish the rowing colours from the rugby union team's, or because his eyesight was deteriorating, began adding subtle amounts of yellow to the blue paint used for oar blades."

Cambridge blue:

A medium spring green colour used by sports teams from the University of Cambridge.


cupreous

en-adj

cupreous (comparative more cupreous, superlative most cupreous)

more cupreous (comparative)
most cupreous (superlative)

From Latin cupreus, from cuprum (“copper”).

Of a reddish-brown color, like that of polished copper.


burnt sienna

We drink the last of the spring water in our canteens and, still thirsty, look to the river, that sombre flow the color of burnt sienna, raw umber, muy colorado, too thin to plow–as the Mormons say–and too thick to drink.

1968, Edward Abbey, “Down the River”, in Desert Solitaire: A Season in the Wilderness, McGraw-Hill; republished New York: Touchstone, 1968, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 160:

burnt sienna:

dark reddish brown colour, like that of roasted sienna.


burnt sienna

Of a dark reddish brown colour, like that of roasted sienna.


émeraude

Inherited from Old French esmeralde, esmeragde, from Vulgar Latin *smaralda, *smaraldus, *smaraudus, variant of Latin smaragdus (“emerald”), from Ancient Greek σμάραγδος (smáragdos), μάραγδος (máragdos, “emerald”), from a Semitic language.


eggshell blue

The sky was clear and eggshell blue.

2005, Gareth Roberts, Only Human, page 63:


blue green

en-noun

blue green (countable and uncountable, plural blue greens)

* blue + green
* (politics): from blue representing conservatism and green representing environmentalism

blue green:

Blue-greens were the principal primary producers throughout the Proterozoic eon from 2.5 billion to 543 million years ago.

2012, Caspar Henderson, The Book of Barely Imagined Beings, page 287:


blue green

Alternative form of blue-green
Of a bluish green colour.

(politics) Synonym of ecocapitalist; Pertaining to ecocapitalism


virid

en-adj

virid (comparative more virid, superlative most virid)

more virid (comparative)
most virid (superlative)

From Middle English viride (“verdigris”, adjective, noun) [and other forms] + English -id (suffix meaning ‘of or pertaining to’ forming adjectives and nouns). Viride is borrowed from Latin viridis (“green; (figuratively) fresh; lively; young, youthful”), from vireō (“to be green or verdant; to sprout new green growth; to flourish; to be lively or vigorous”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *weys- (“to procreate; to produce; to increase; to raise”). Doublet of verdant and vert.

der

Her tombe vvas not of viride Spartane greet, / Nor yet by cunning hand of Scopas vvrought, / But built of poliſht ſtone, and thereon laid / The liuely ſhape and purtrait of the maid.

1600, [Torquato Tasso], “The Twelfth Booke of Godfrey of Bulloigne”, in Edward Fairefax [i.e., Edward Fairfax], transl., Godfrey of Bulloigne, or The Recouerie of Ierusalem. […], London: […] Ar[nold] Hatfield, for I[saac] Iaggard and M[atthew] Lownes, →OCLC, stanza 94, page 231:

The palace here, and there a virid mound, / Confine a flow'ry ſpot of graſſy ground.

1758, [James Macpherson], The Highlander: […], Edinburgh: […] Wal[ter] Ruddiman jun. and Company, →OCLC, canto IV, page 52:

Virid fields would heave brownly under their ploughs; they would find that with practice it was almost as easy to chuckle as it was to cringe.

1921 October, James Branch Cabell, “The Story of the Satraps”, in Chivalry: Dizain des Reines, revised edition, New York, N.Y.: Robert M[edill] McBride & Company, page 170:

His protuberant eyeballs were veined with red like certain kinds of rare marble. He urged me to meditate upon the virid line of the whirling universe.

1977, Angela Carter, chapter 2, in The Passion of New Eve, London: Virago Press, published 1992, →ISBN, page 13:

When the liver has been struck by wind, the victim desires only to squat down and is unable even to lower his head. If the skin around the eyes and on the forehead has taken on a slightly virid hue, the lips have turned virid, and the face yellow, treatment is still possible. […] If, however, the color is a deeply virid or even black and if the face is sometimes yellow and sometimes white, the liver has already suffered irreparable harm.

1985, Paul U[lrich] Unschuld, “[Appendix: Primary Texts in Translation] Chu-ping yüan hou lun”, in Medicine in China: A History of Ideas (Comparative Studies of Health Systems and Medical Care), Berkeley, Los Angeles, Calif., London: University of California Press, →ISBN, section 3.1 (Symptomatology of [the Illness] “Hit-by-Wind”), page 297:


eau de nil

Unadapted borrowing from French eau de nil (literally “water of the Nile”).


dove grey

dove grey:

(British spelling) A medium grey colour with a slight tint of pink or blue, like that of a dove.


dove grey

The interior colour scheme departs from the conventional L.T. red and green upholstery and matching paintwork, which has been replaced by a maroon and grey moquette with dove grey paint below the waist rail.

1960 February, “The first of London's new Piccadilly Line trains is delivered”, in Trains Illustrated, page 94:

(British spelling) Of a medium grey colour with a slight tint of pink or blue, like that of a dove.


burgundy

en-adj

burgundy (comparative more burgundy, superlative most burgundy)

more burgundy (comparative)
most burgundy (superlative)

1881, from attributive use of Burgundy (“wine from Burgundy”) from Burgundy wine, from Burgundy (“region of France”) + wine.

She and her beige-chemised assistant entered the salonlike fourth-floor showroom and were ushered into a smaller private room with burgundy carpeting that matched Rubylee's J. Tiktiner print dress.

1981, “Texas Monthly”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), volume 9, number 1, page 96:

Of a deep purple red color like that of Burgundy wine.


gunmetal-grey

The Altamaha-ha, as the serpent has been named, is said to be from twelve to twenty feet long, about two feet in diameter, and gunmetal gray on top with a creamy underside. Most descriptions suggest a creature that is part eel, part alligator, ...

2005, Emily Ellison, Chuck Perry, Liars and Legends, Thomas Nelson, →ISBN:

Of a dark grey colour with a tint of blue.


buckskin

en-noun

buckskin (countable and uncountable, plural buckskins)

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From Middle English bukskyn; equivalent to buck + skin.

I have alluded to his buckskins.

1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 3, in Vanity Fair […], London: Bradbury and Evans […], published 1848, →OCLC:

buckskin:

A soft strong leather, usually yellowish or grayish in color, made of deerskin.

abaní

a soft strong leather, usually yellowish or grayish in color, made of deerskin

Cornwallis fought as lang's he dought, / An' did the buckskins claw, man.

1784, Robert Burns, Ballad on the American War:

A person clothed in buckskin, particularly an American soldier of the Revolutionary war.

A horse with a light yellowish-brown coat.


cerulean

en-adj

cerulean (comparative more cerulean, superlative most cerulean)

more cerulean (comparative)
most cerulean (superlative)

From Latin caeruleus (“blue”) + -an, from caelum (“sky, heaven”) + -uleus (diminutive suffix).

affix

As far to the west as Monica could see, her world was a sea of fog, […]. Above it arched a cerulean sky; as the sun climbed to the zenith, […], the fog gradually took on a bluish tinge.

1920, Peter B. Kyne, chapter II, in The Understanding Heart:

Oh Ramona, if there was only some kind of future / And these cerulean skies / Something in our skies, something in our skies

1995, “The Hearts Filthy Lesson”, in 1. Outside, performed by David Bowie:

But what you don't know is that that sweater is not just blue, it's not turquoise, it's not lapis, it's actually cerulean. And you're also blithely unaware of the fact that in 2002, Oscar de la Renta did a collection of cerulean gowns. And then I think it was Yves Saint Laurent, wasn't it, who showed cerulean military jackets?

2006, Aline Brosh McKenna, Lauren Weisberger, The Devil Wears Prada, spoken by Miranda Priestly (Meryl Streep):


butterscotch

en-noun

butterscotch (usually uncountable, plural butterscotches)

/ˈbʌtɚˌskɑt͡ʃ/

From butter + scotch, with the second element deriving (not from scotch whiskey or Scotland, but) from Middle English scocchen (“to score, nick, cut”), in reference to how the candy is boiled and hardened and then usually scored to make breaking it apart easier. The word is usually said to have originally been a trademark of Parkinson's, who is claimed to have invented it.

der

A hard candy made from butter, brown sugar, syrup and vanilla.

A sauce or syrup made of similar ingredients.

奶油糖漿

butterscotch:

A light brown colour, like that of butterscotch candy.


butterscotch

/ˈbʌtɚˌskɑt͡ʃ/

Of a light brown colour, like that of butterscotch candy.


gamboge

en-noun

gamboge (countable and uncountable, plural gamboges)

From New Latin gambogium, cambogium (“resin from trees used to make yellow dye”), from New Latin Gambogia, Cambogia (“Cambodia”). The Latin word was first attested in English as a colour in 1634. Doublet of Cambodia and Kampuchea.

Clusiaceæ, or Guttiferæ, a natural order of trees or shrubs belonging to the Dicotyledons (division Thalamifloræ), natives of the humid tropics of S. America. [...] Most of the plants have acrid properties, and yield a yellow resin. Among the chief and common plants of the order are Gambooge (q.v.), Mangosteen fruit (Garcinia Mangostana), [...]

1877, “Clusiaceæ, or Guttiferæ”, in John M[erry] Ross, editor, The Globe Encyclopædia of Universal Information, volume II, Boston, Mass.: Estes & Lauriat, […], →OCLC, page 178, column 2:

One of several species of trees of the genus Garcinia found in South and Southeastern Asia, especially Garcinia xanthochymus.


brick red

Of a warm brownish-red colour similar to that of red clay bricks.


gainsboro

A color named "gainsboro" was added to the X11 color chart by Paul Raveling in 1989. Raveling explained that he introduced a number of "light and off-white colors, copied from several Sinclair Paints color samples", of which gainsboro appears to be one.

gainsboro:

By using light gray or Gainsboro we are using Edward Tufte's principle of "minimum effective difference" to put in ancillary information.

2005 May 21, David Park, “Re: GridLines issue”, in comp.soft-sys.math.mathematica (Usenet):

When the temperature reached to^([sic]) about 40 °C, the color of characters began to change, and it changed completely from black to gainsboro when the temperature rose to about 50 °C. As the[…]film cooled down to the room temperature, the color returned to black.

2017, Guoliang Wang et al., “AgNW/Chinese Xuan paper film heaters for electro-thermochromic paper display”, in Materials Research Express, volume 4, number 11:


floral white

floral white:


reseda

From French réséda, from Latin resēda, said by Pliny the Elder (23–79 C.E.) to be from resēdāre (“to soothe”), from re- (“again”) + sēdāre (“to assuage, calm”)), an allusion to the healing properties of the plant.

About the middle of this month, if the ſeaſon proves favourable, you may plant out your hardy annuals, ſuch as Marvel of Peru, Sweet Sultan, China After or Starwort, Sweet Reſeda called Mignonette d'Egypt, French and African Marigolds, Female Balſamine, Capſicum, Brown Jolly, and ſeveral other ſorts, which, if artfully diſpoſed, will afford an agreeable pleaſure, after the beauty of ſpring is paſt; […]

1757, Philip Miller, “May”, in The Gardeners Kalendar; Directing what Works are Necessary to be Done Every Month in the Kitchen, Fruit, and Pleasure-Gardens, as also in the Conservatory and Nursery. With Accounts I. Of the Particular Seasons for the Propagation of All Sorts of Esculent Plants and Fruits, with the Seasons wherein Each Sort is Proper for the Table. II. Of All Sorts of Trees, Plants, and Flowers, with the Time of Their Flowering in Each Month, 11th edition, London: Printed by Charles Rivington, for John Rivington, at the Bible and Crown, in St. Paul's Church-Yard; and James Rivington and James Fletcher, at the Oxford-Theatre, in Pater-noster Row, →OCLC, page 146:

Reseda or mignonette is grown in the Grasse region [of France]. The tendency for green notes in recent years has given fresh interest to the reseda note. Absolute oil of reseda has an odour recalling that of violet leaves, but with a rather fine 'powdery' background and a suggestion of rose and a little basil.

[2003], H. Panda, “Raw Materials: Products of Natural Origin”, in The Complete Technology Book on Herbal Perfumes & Cosmetics, New Delhi: Ajay Kr. Gupta, National Institute of Industrial Research, →ISBN, page 92:

Reseda odorata
Reseda odorata#Translingual

(botany, horticulture, specifically) Mignonette (Reseda odorata).


celadon

celadon (usually uncountable, plural celadons)

Washington D.C. (canonical)
celadons (plural)

Borrowed from the French céladon from the character named Céladon, who wore pale green ribbons, in the novel L'Astrée by Honoré d'Urfé, from Latin Celadon, a warrior's name in Ovid's Metamorphoses.

celadon:

A pale green colour, possibly tinted with gray.

from the Ming Dynasty. Smithsonian Institution


celadon

en-adj

celadon (comparative more celadon, superlative most celadon)

more celadon (comparative)
most celadon (superlative)

[H]e stroked a soft blue cat with celadon eyes which had appeared from nowhere and now made itself comfortable in his lap […].

1941, Vladimir Nabokov, The Real Life of Sebastian Knight, Penguin 1971 edition, page 40:

Of a pale green colour tinted with gray.


celadon

celadon (indefinite nominative singular)
celadons (genitive indefinite singular)
celadonen (definite nominative singular)
celadonens (definite genitive singular)
celadoner (indefinite nominative plural)
celadoners (genitive indefinite plural)
celadonerna (definite nominative plural)
celadonernas (definite genitive plural)

celadon (color, ceramic glaze, and ceramic ware)


ner

rm-adj

ner m (feminine singular nera, masculine plural ners, feminine plural neras)

nera (feminine singular)
ners (masculine plural)
neras (feminine plural)


lurid

en-adj

lurid (comparative more lurid, superlative most lurid)

more lurid (comparative)
most lurid (superlative)

Borrowed from Latin lūridus (“pale yellow, wan”).

The accident was described with lurid detail.

Speculating on why publishers rejected it, he wonders whether it was deemed too lurid at the time, especially since Steinbeck was then an unknown author.

2021 May 22, Dalya Alberge, “John Steinbeck’s estate urged to let the world read his shunned werewolf novel”, in The Observer:

Shocking, horrifying, especially when it comes to violence or sex.

Fierce o'er their beauty blazed the lurid flame;

Wrapt in drifts of lurid smoke / On the misty river-tide.

1855, Alfred Tennyson, “Maud”, in Maud, and Other Poems, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, page 86:

The great banths sniffed the unfamiliar odours, and then with a rush they broke past us with low growls, swarming across the gardens beneath the lurid light of the nearer moon.

1913 January–May, Edgar Rice Burroughs, “The Gods of Mars”, in The All-Story, New York, N.Y.: Frank A. Munsey Co., →OCLC; republished as “Corridors of Peril”, in The Gods of Mars, Chicago, Ill.: A[lexander] C[aldwell] McClurg & Co., 1918 September, →OCLC, page 85:

The lurid lighting of the bar made for a very hazy atmosphere.

a lurid plant with maroon leaves and pink flowers

(botany) Having a brown colour tinged with red.

(zoology) Having a colour tinged with purple, yellow, and grey.


eggshell

From Middle English eggeshell, ege schelle, egg-shel, egg shelle (also as Middle English eye schell, ey-schel, ey-schelle), partially continuing Old English ǣġsċill, ǣġsċyll (“eggshell”), equivalent to egg + shell. Cognate with Saterland Frisian Oaierskil (“eggshell”), Dutch eierschaal (“eggshell”), German Eierschale (“eggshell”), Danish æggeskal (“eggshell”), Swedish äggskal (“eggshell”).

cog

eggshell:

A pale off-white colour, like that of the eggshell.


topaz

en-noun

topaz (usually uncountable, plural topazes)

→ Irish: tópás

→ Welsh: topas

From Old French topace (compare French topaze), from Ancient Greek τόπαζος (tópazos).

Elgin. Topaz a Saltier and Chief Ruby, on a Canton Pearl a Lyon Rampant Saphyr, which last is their paternal Coat; and the Field Topaz, and Saltier, and Chief Ruby, was the Arms of King Robert the Bruce, they altering the Field from Pearl (as he bore it) to Topaz. / Eglington. Quarterly, 1st and 4th, Saphyr three Flower-de-Liss Topaz, for Montgomery; 2d and 3d, Ruby three Anulets Topaz', ston'd Saphyr, for the Title of Eglington; […]

1720, Francis Nichols, Rudiments of Honour, page 296:

The Field is Ruby, on a Bend Topaz, three Martlets Diamond. […] 4. Pearl, on a Bend Diamond, nine Annulets conjoined in three Links Topaz.

1726, John Guillim, The Banner Display'd; Or, an Abridgment of Guillim, page 504:

(1) Pearl, a Cross, Ruby, with the Effigies of our Saviour thereon, Topaz, born in Memory of one of the Family's fighting against the Turks. (2) Topaz, a Chief Indented, Saphire. (3) Ruby, three covered Cups, Topaz […]

1754, John Lodge, The Peerage of Ireland; Or, a Genealogical History of the ..., page 71:

(heraldry) Or (gold or yellow), in blazoning by precious stones.

A ruby-topaz hummingbird, Chrysolampis mosquitus, the male of which has bright ruby feathers on the head and topaz on the throat


hot pink

en-adj

hot pink (comparative more hot pink, superlative most hot pink)

more hot pink (comparative)
most hot pink (superlative)

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claret

en-verb

claret (third-person singular simple present clarets, present participle clareting, simple past and past participle clareted)

clarets (present singular third-person)
clareting (participle present)
clareted (participle past)
clareted (past)

From Middle English claret, from Middle French claret, from Medieval Latin clārātum vīnum, from clārus.
Compare tent (“Spanish red wine”), also from color

We clareted and champagned till two—then supped, and finished with a kind of regency punch composed of madeira, brandy, and green tea, no real water being admitted therein. There was a night for you!

By night, again, we miss the bright cafe, the brilliantly illuminated offices, and the fringe of guests smoking and clareting […]

1869, Andrew Wynter, Subtle Brains and Lissom Fingers:

(intransitive, archaic) To drink claret.


eggplant

en-noun

eggplant (countable and uncountable, plural eggplants)

From egg + plant, originally applied only to the white-colored, egg-shaped variety.

Solanum melongena
Solanum melongena#Translingual

(Canada, US, Australia, New Zealand, Philippines) The plant Solanum melongena.


lemon chiffon

lemon chiffon:

A very light yellow, like that of lemon chiffon pie.


lemon chiffon

Of a very light yellow, like that of lemon chiffon pie.


grizzle

From Middle English grisel, gryselle, from Old French grisel, from gris (“grey”), from Frankish *grīs, from Proto-Germanic *grīsaz.


grizzle

en-verb

grizzle (third-person singular simple present grizzles, present participle grizzling, simple past and past participle grizzled)

grizzles (present singular third-person)
grizzling (participle present)
grizzled (participle past)
grizzled (past)

[Wilfred:] In tears, eh? What a plague art thou grizzling for now?

1888, W[illiam] S[chwenck] Gilbert, Arthur Sullivan, composer, The Yeomen of the Guard […] , London: Chappel & Co., […], published c. 1911:

R. J. Tizard — What are you grizzling about now?

1976, New Zealand House of Representatives, Parliamentary Debates, page 4850:

The pin-thin girl is grizzling, whining that she has sand in her eyes.

2009, Judy Waite, Game Girls, unnumbered page:

(UK, Australia, New Zealand, slang) To whinge or whine.

New mothers frequently complain that their partner won't get up to change a wet nappy or comfort a grizzling baby.

(UK, Australia, New Zealand, slang) To fuss or cry


lovat

en-noun

lovat (countable and uncountable, plural lovats)

lovat:


citrine

citrine (countable and uncountable, plural citrines)

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From Middle English citrine, partly from Middle French citrine and partly from Latin citrīnus.

citrine:

[…] the urine becometh citrine, or of a deep yellowe color […]

1598, Francis Thynne, Animadversions […] :

dorrẹ̅, dōrī adj. & n. […] Golden or reddish-yellow […] (a. 1398) *Trev. Barth. 59b/a: ʒelouʒ colour [of urine] […] tokeneþ febleness of hete […] dorrey & citrine & liʒt red tokeneþ mene.

c. 1398, quoted in Hans Kurath & Sherman M. Kuhn, eds., Middle English Dictionary, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan Press, ISBN 978-0-472-01044-8, 1962, page 1242

A goldish-yellow colour, like that of a lemon.


citrine

The coin […] bore what I at first thought was a woman's face—a woman crowned, neither young nor old, but silent and perfect in the citrine metal.

1980, Gene Wolfe, chapter III, in The Shadow of the Torturer (The Book of the New Sun; 1), New York: Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 31:


mint cream

mint cream (countable and uncountable, plural mint creams)

mint cream:

A very faint green colour, like that of crème de menthe.

A chocolate filled with peppermint fondant.


mint cream

Of a very faint green colour, like that of crème de menthe.


misty rose

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Of very faint pink color, like that of a rose veiled in mist.


Navajo white

Navajo white (countable and uncountable, plural Navajo whites)

Navajo white:

Navajo white (color corresponding to RGB code FFDEAD)


goldenrod

goldenrod (countable and uncountable, plural goldenrods)

/ˈɡoʊldənˌɹɑd/

Any tall-stemmed plant principally from genus Solidago (also Oligoneuron), usually with clusters of small yellow flowers.

She wore a goldenrod dress with a scooping neckline.

2020, Brit Bennett, The Vanishing Half, Dialogue Books, page 160:

goldenrod:

A golden-yellow colour, like that of the goldenrod plant.


goldenrod

en-adj

goldenrod (comparative more goldenrod, superlative most goldenrod)

more goldenrod (comparative)
most goldenrod (superlative)

/ˈɡoʊldənˌɹɑd/

Of a golden-yellow colour, like that of the goldenrod plant.


moreno

ca-adj

moreno (feminine morena, masculine plural morenos, feminine plural morenes)

morena (feminine)
morenos (masculine plural)
morenes (feminine plural)


moss green

dark moss green:

A dark green colour with a tint of yellow, like that of moss.

pale moss green:

A pale greyish green color, like that of lichen.


moss green

Of a dark green colour with a tint of yellow, like that of moss.

Of a pale greyish green color, like that of lichen.


pea green

pea green:

A medium green colour, like that of peas.


pea green

The pea-green colour of the South-Western engines, with the curious buff-and-amber of the carriages, was also a novelty, as were the raised top-decks of the older guards' vans.

1939 June, T.R. Perkins, “My Red-Letter Day - II”, in Railway Magazine, page 400:

Of a yellowish green colour, like that of peas.


off-white

en-noun

off-white (countable and uncountable, plural off-whites)

off-white:

A very pale colour that is almost white.


off-white

Of a very pale colour that is almost white.

възбя́л

of a very pale colour that is almost white


hoar

non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger

From Middle English hor, hore, from Old English hār (“hoar, hoary, grey, old”), from Proto-West Germanic *hair, from Proto-Germanic *hairaz (“grey”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ḱeh₃- (“grey, dark”). Cognate with German hehr (“noble, sublime”), Herr (“sir, gentleman”), Scottish Gaelic ciar (“dusky”), and Russian се́рый (séryj, “grey”).

der

hoar:

His grants are engrafted on the public law of Europe, covered with the awful hoar of innumerable ages.

1796, Edmund Burke, A Letter from the Right Honourable Edmund Burke to a Noble Lord, 10th edition, London: For J. Owen, and F. and C. Rivington, page 52:


hoar

hoar waters

1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto XII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 10:

old trees with trunks all hoar

1816, Lord Byron, “Canto III”, in Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage. Canto the Third, London: Printed for John Murray, […], →OCLC, stanza CI:

Bright fell the moonlight on pillar and court and shattered wall, hiding all their rents and imperfections in its silver garment, and clothing their hoar majesty with the peculiar glory of the night.

1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:

And lo, where rapt in beauty's heavenly dream
Hoar Plato walks his olived Academe.

1751, Thomas Warton, Newmarket, a Satire:

This is the forest primeval. The murmuring pines and the hemlocks,
Bearded with moss, and in garments green, indistinct in the twilight,
Stand like Druids of eld, with voices sad and prophetic,
Stand like harpers hoar, with beards that rest on their bosoms.

1847 November 1, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Evangeline, a Tale of Acadie, Boston, Mass.: William D. Ticknor & Company, →OCLC, (please specify either |part=I or II):

But a hare that is hoar / Is too much for a score / When it hoars ere it be spent.

c. 1591–1595 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Romeo and Ivliet”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene iv], line 134:

Be Thou with me until Old-age, and even to hoar hairs do Thou carrie me. P. Isa. 46.4.

1648, Lancelot Andrewes, A manual of directions for the sick with many sweet meditations and devotions of the R. Reverend Father in God, Lancelot Andrews, late L. Bishop of Winchester: to which are added praiers for the morning, evening and H. communion, page 202:

The great popularity of the Stuarts—certainly more allied to personal causes than we can at present calculate—is a curious fact. It was not one of those feelings drawn from hoar antiquity, when habit has become religion.

1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XVI, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume I, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 173:

(archaic) Figuratively, grey-haired with age.


tow-colored

Of a pale yellow colour, like that of flax.


old lace

old lace:

A off-white colour, like that of old lace.


old lace

Of an off-white colour, like that of old lace.


rifle green

en-noun

rifle green (countable and uncountable, plural rifle greens)

rifle green:

A dark green colour, like that of the British Army rifleman uniform.


rifle green

Of a dark green colour, like that of the British Army rifleman uniform.


saddle brown

saddle brown:

A medium brown colour, like that of a saddle.


saddle brown

Of a medium brown colour, like that of a saddle.


pearl grey

pearl grey:

A pale grey colour, tinted with blue, like that of some pearls.


pearl grey

Of a pale grey colour, tinted with blue, like that of some pearls.


sky blue

en-adj

sky blue (comparative more sky blue, superlative most sky blue)

more sky blue (comparative)
most sky blue (superlative)

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“Hi! Kostandi!” called out an old sailor in a sky-blue cloak. “How are things with you?”

1952, Nikos Kazantzakis, chapter 1, in Carl Wildman, transl., Zorba the Greek, New York, N.Y.: Simon & Schuster, translation of Βίος και πολιτεία του Αλέξη Ζορμπά [Víos kai politeía tou Aléxi Zormpá], →ISBN, page 3:

Of a vibrant light blue colour, like that of the sky on a fine day.


spring green

en-noun

spring green (countable and uncountable, plural spring greens)

spring green:

The chip smells like nothing, but tastes like a smörgåsbord that’s both confusing and arousing, like Steve Buscemi. Flecks of spring green – the kind generated from radioactive waste – coat the unwieldy triangles. The seasoning is a kaleidoscope of Day-Glo dust particles that perishes under saliva and tongue.

2022 April 20, Mariella Rudi, “Tostitos Hint of Lime has zero lime – but it’s still the perfect chip”, in The Guardian:

A fresh green colour that reminds one of spring.


spring green

Of a fresh green colour that reminds one of spring.


sage green

sage green:

A greyish green colour, like that of sage.


sage green

Of a greyish green colour, like that of sage.

сивозелен

of a greyish green colour, like that of sage


slate gray

slate gray (countable and uncountable, plural slate grays)

slate gray:

savenharmaa

dark bluish-grey colour — see also slate, slate blue, blue-gray


slate gray

schiefergrau

of a dark bluish-grey colour — see also of a dark bluish-grey colour


pearly

pearly (countable and uncountable, plural pearlies)

pearly:

In nature we as often find the light cool as warm; also in the pictures of many of the Flemish and Dutch schools, where, as Sir Joshua himself mentions, " the silver gray or pearly is predominant, and are valued by the connoisseurs in proportion as they possess this excellence of a silver tint."

1830, John Burnet, A practical treatise on painting, page 3:

Pearly is that silky and often coloured lustre which renders of such value

When (the scales are) more developed and thickened, the color (pearly) is deepened, shading

1899, St. Louis medical and surgical journal, page 126:

(uncountable, uncommon, dated) A pale greyish white colour, tinted with blue.

(countable, British, slang, especially in plural) A tooth.


pearly

en-adj

pearly (comparative pearlier, superlative pearliest)

pearlier (comparative)
pearliest (superlative)

Of a pale greyish white colour, tinted with blue.


violet red

Of a deep purplish pink colour, like that of some violets.


malachite

malachite (comparative more malachite, superlative most malachite)

more malachite (comparative)
most malachite (superlative)

From Middle French malachite, from Latin molochītis, from Ancient Greek μολόχη (molókhē, “[leaf of the ... ] mallow plant”).

der

Of a colour ranging from olive-taupe to a mild to deeply-rich (at times seemingly translucent) green, like that of the mineral which is present on oxidized copper.


silver-grey

silver-grey:


royal purple

en-noun

royal purple (countable and uncountable, plural royal purples)

royal purple:


royal purple

Of a deep vibrant reddish purple colour.


honeydew

honeydew (countable and uncountable, plural honeydews)

The noun is derived from honey + dew, originally believed to be a form of dew that fell from the sky like rain onto plants (see sense 1).
The adjective is derived from the noun.

[F]reſh teares / Stood on her cheeks, as doth the honie dew, / Vpon a gathred Lillie almoſt withered.

c. 1588–1593 (date written), [William Shakespeare], The Most Lamentable Romaine Tragedie of Titus Andronicus: […] (First Quarto), London: […] Iohn Danter, and are to be sold by Edward White & Thomas Millington, […], published 1594, →OCLC, [Act III, scene i]:

In India, and eſpecially in the region of the Praſians, it raineth many times a dew like liquid hony falling vppon the hearbs and graſſe of the earth: wherefore the ſhepheards lead their flocks vnto thoſe places, wherwithal their cattle are much delighted, and ſuch as is the food they eat, ſuch alſo is the taſt of the milke they render; […] Such a kind of dew the Hæbrewes call Manna, the Græcians Aeromelos, and Droſomelos: The Germaines Himmelhung: and in Engliſh Honny-dew: […]

1658, Edward Topsel [i.e., Edward Topsell], “Of the Sheepe”, in The History of Four-footed Beasts and Serpents: […], London: […] E. Cotes, for G. Sawbridge […], T. Williams […], and T. Johnson […], →OCLC, page 603:

Weave a circle round him thrice, / And close your eyes with holy dread: / For he on honey-dew hath fed, / And drank the milk of Paradise.

1797, S[amuel] T[aylor] Coleridge, “Kubla Khan: Or A Vision in a Dream”, in Christabel: Kubla Khan, a Vision: The Pains of Sleep, London: […] John Murray, […], by William Bulmer and Co. […], published 1816, →OCLC, page 58:

(uncountable) A sweet liquid substance resembling the substance mentioned in sense 1, such as honey, nectar, or manna in the Bible.

مَنّ

(countable) Short for honeydew melon (“a melon from the Cucumis melo Inodorus cultivar group, with sweet, light green or white flesh and a smooth greenish-white or yellow rind”).

honeydew melon

honeydew:

(uncountable) A light green colour, like the flesh of some honeydew melons.


honeydew

en-adj

honeydew (comparative more honeydew, superlative most honeydew)

more honeydew (comparative)
most honeydew (superlative)

Of a light green colour, like the flesh of some honeydew melons.


amaranthine

en-noun

amaranthine (countable and uncountable, plural amaranthines)

/ˌæm.əˈɹæn.θɪn/

1660s, coined by Milton, originally in sense "unfading", as amaranth + -ine, from Ancient Greek ἀμάραντος (amárantos, “unfading”). Later used for color.

uder

Ah! when the eternal morning dawns,
And amaranthines shall displace the thorns […]

1857, Eleanor Duckworth, Milly Wentworth, Poems and Sketches, page 65:


wheaten

en-adj

wheaten (comparative more wheaten, superlative most wheaten)

more wheaten (comparative)
most wheaten (superlative)

From Middle English wheten, from Old English hwǣten (“wheaten”); equivalent to wheat + -en.

Of a pale yellow-beige colour, like that of wheat.


wheaten

wheaten:

A pale yellow or beige colour, like that of wheat.


Congo red

en-noun

Congo red (countable and uncountable, plural Congo reds)

A dye that turns red in alkaline, blue in acidic solutions.


pistachio green

pistachio green (plural pistachio greens)

pistachio green:

A pale yellow-green colour, like that of the pistachio nut.


pistachio green

Of a pale yellow-green colour, like that of the pistachio nut.


platinum blond

platinum blond (countable and uncountable, plural platinum blonds)


heather

heather (countable and uncountable, plural heathers)

From Middle English hather, hathir, from Old English *hǣddre and hǣþ (“heather”), cognate with Scots hedder, hadder, heddir (“heather”), Saterland Frisian Heede (“heather”), West Frisian heide (“heather”), Dutch heide (“heather”), German Low German Heide, Heid (“heather”), German Heide (“heather”).

The cutting sides were gay with heather in bloom, and masses of dainty Scots bluebells, while patches of clear sky overhead were bringing life and colour to the sea.

1947 January and February, O. S. Nock, “"The Aberdonian" in Wartime”, in Railway Magazine, page 9:

Calluna vulgaris
Calluna vulgaris#Translingual

An evergreen plant, Calluna vulgaris, with spiky leaves and small purple, pink, or white flowers.

heather:

A purple colour with a tint of pink and blue.


heather

Of a purple colour with a tint of pink and blue.


vitt

white; legally, in accordance with (tax) laws and regulations


chrome red

chrome red (countable and uncountable, plural chrome reds)


titian

Named after Titian (Italian Tiziano), the Italian painter who made frequent use of this colour.

lang

<i class="Latn mention" lang="en">Titian</i>

titian:

A bright auburn colour, tinted with gold.


titian

en-adj

titian (comparative more titian, superlative most titian)

more titian (comparative)
most titian (superlative)

Of a bright auburn colour, tinted with gold, especially in reference to hair.


зрак

bg-noun

зрак • (zrak) m (relational adjective зра́чен)

zrak (romanization)
зра́чен (adjective relational)
зрак (indefinite singular)
зра́кове (indefinite plural)
зра́ци (indefinite plural)
зра́кът (definite singular subjective)
зра́ковете (definite plural subjective)
зра́ците (definite plural subjective)
зра́ка (definite objective singular)
зра́ковете (definite objective plural)
зра́ците (definite objective plural)
зра́ка (count-form plural)

bg-ndecl

зрак<+ове+и>

взра́чен

зра́чен (zráčen)

призра́чен

зра́чен (zráčen)

прозра́чен

зра́чен (zráčen)


oxblood

en-adj

oxblood (comparative more oxblood, superlative most oxblood)

more oxblood (comparative)
most oxblood (superlative)

He was tall and lean, with lank fair hair and a square jaw, togged out in tweeds and a checked shirt and scuffed, oxblood brogues.


badam

ms-noun

badam (Jawi spelling بادم, plural badam-badam, informal 1st possessive badamku, 2nd possessive badammu, 3rd possessive badamnya)

بادم (Jawi)
badam-badam (plural)
badamku (first-person informal possessive)
badammu (possessive second-person)
badamnya (possessive third-person)

Indonesian: badam

From Classical Malay بادم (badam), from Classical Persian بادام (bādām).


badam

almond (resembling the colour of an almond nut)


naked eye

Eyesight, unaided by equipment such as a telescope or microscope.

неозбро́єне о́ко n (neozbrójene óko, literally “unarmed eye”)

неозбро́єним о́ком (neozbrójenym ókom, literally “with an unarmed eye”)


ashy

en-adj

ashy (comparative ashier, superlative ashiest)

ashier (comparative)
ashiest (superlative)

From Middle English asshy, asky, equivalent to ash + -y.

Still is he sullein, still he lowres and frets,
Twixt crimson shame, and anger ashie pale,

1593, [William Shakespeare], Venus and Adonis, London: […] Richard Field, […], →OCLC:

Tell her that sicknesse, with her ashie hand,
Hath swept away the beauty from my cheekes,

1634 (first performance), Thomas Heywood, Loves Maistresse: Or, The Queens Masque. […], London: […] Robert Raworth, for Iohn Crowch; and are to bee sold by Iasper Emery, […], published 1636, →OCLC, Act IIII:

Again the operation; again the narcotic; again some return of colour to the ashy cheeks, and the regular breathing of healthy sleep.

1897, Bram Stoker, chapter 11, in Dracula, New York, N.Y.: Modern Library, →OCLC, chapter IX, page 126:

Beyond that black clot the sea lay, pale with last ashy gleam of day.

1968, Ursula K. Le Guin, chapter 7, in A Wizard of Earthsea, page 123:

Resembling ashes (especially in colour); (of a person’s complexion) unusually pale as a result of strong emotion, illness, etc.

Ye heauenly spirites, whose ashie cinders lie
Vnder deep ruines, with huge walls opprest,

1591, Ed[mund] Sp[enser], “Ruines of Rome”, in Complaints. Containing Sundrie Small Poemes of the Worlds Vanitie. […], London: […] William Ponsonbie, […], →OCLC:

[…] where yet the Embers glow,
Wide o’er the Pyle the sable Wine they throw,
And deep subsides the ashy Heap below.

1715–1720, Homer, translated by Alexander Pope, “Book 23”, in The Iliad of Homer, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: […] W[illiam] Bowyer, for Bernard Lintott […], →OCLC, page 75:

[…] I saw her sitting on the hearth in a ragged chair, close before, and lost in the contemplation of, the ashy fire.

1860 December – 1861 August, Charles Dickens, chapter X, in Great Expectations […], volume III, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published October 1861, →OCLC, page 151:

He lit the paper until it burned to an ashy film.

1991, Edwidge Danticat, “A Wall of Fire Rising”, in Krik? Krak!, New York: Soho Press:

Comprising, containing, or covered with ash.


pewter

en-noun

pewter (countable and uncountable, plural pewters)

→ Welsh: piwter

From Middle English peutre, from Old French peautre, from Vulgar Latin *peltrum (“pewter”), which is of uncertain origin. Possibly related to spelter.


purpure

From Middle English purpure, from Old English purpure and Old French purpure (“purple”); both from Latin purpura. Doublet of purple and purpura.

Many authorities reject the authenticity of purpure as a tincture.

purpure:

(heraldry) A purple colour on a coat of arms, represented in engraving by diagonal parallel lines 45 degrees clockwise.


purpure

(heraldry) In blazon, of the colour purple.


swot

head

swot (masculine swotten, feminine, plural or definite swotte, comparative swotter, superlative swotst)

swotten (masculine)
swotte (definite plural)
swotter (comparative)
swotst (superlative)

From Old Frisian swart, from Proto-West Germanic *swart. Cognates include German schwarz and West Frisian swart.


seashell

The seashells on the beach are toxic and best avoided.

seashell:

A very light pink colour, like that of some seashells.


seashell

Of a very light pink colour, like that of some seashells.


perle

English: pearl

Scots: pairl, purl

From Old French perle, from Medieval Latin perula.

(figurative) The pupil (hole in the iris)


Blau

de-noun

Blau n (strong, genitive Blaus, plural Blau or Blaus)

Blaus (genitive)
Blau (plural)
Blaus (plural)
Blau (nominative singular)
Blau (definite nominative plural)
Blaus (definite nominative plural)
Blaus (genitive singular)
Blau (definite genitive plural)
Blaus (definite genitive plural)
Blau (dative singular)
Blau (dative definite plural)
Blaus (dative definite plural)
Blau (accusative singular)
Blau (accusative definite plural)
Blaus (accusative definite plural)

(uncountable) the colour blue (as a whole)

(countable) a particular tone of blue
(heraldry) azure; blue in heraldry

a particular tone of blue
azure; blue in heraldry

Wir jagen mit tausend Sachen durch das weite Blau.

We’re racing through the wide blue at 1000 km/h.

(generally uncountable) a vast blue area, especially:


Blau

Sie hod grose blaue Aue


color blindness

en-noun

color blindness (countable and uncountable, plural color blindnesses)

color blind + -ness or color + blindness

(medicine, ophthalmology) Any of several medical conditions in which the physical ability to see colors is impaired, especially achromatopsia, Daltonism.

عمى الألوان

condition in which the ability to see colors is impaired


sorrel

sorrel (countable and uncountable, plural sorrels)

From Middle English sorel, from Old French sorel, surele (“sorrel”), from Old French sur (“sour”), of Germanic origin, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *sūraz (“sour”); equivalent to sour + -el (diminutive suffix). Compare Old English sūre (“sorrel”), Icelandic súra (“sorrel”), Dutch zuring (“dock (plant), sorrel”). More at sour.

Rumex acetosa
Rumex acetosa#Translingual

Any of various plants with acidic leaves of the genus Rumex, especially

Rumex acetosa (common sorrel, garden sorrel), sometimes used as a salad vegetable.

Members of genus Oxalis or family Oxalidaceae, woodsorrels.

Now, many people drink alcohol, but when I was a child I remember drinking sorrel, ginger beer and drinks made from fresh fruits such as soursop and passion-fruit. Sorrel was prepared over a long period, not as quickly as it is now.

2007, African and Caribbean Celebrations, →ISBN, page 56:

For instance, one day we were sitting on the porch, looking down at the lagoon and the yachts from all over the world. He was drinking ginger beer mixed with rum, and I was drinking sorrel. No rum. Out of nowhere, he proposed.

2009, C. C. Alick, Dancing with the Yumawalli: Inspired by True Events, page 62:

Joy and the parents did not go either; we spent a quiet day at home, eating roast chicken and stuffing with our own green-gungu rice and peas, and drinking sorrel.

2012, Claudette Beckford-Brady, Sweet Home, Jamaica, page 390:

Hibiscus sabdariffa
Hibiscus sabdariffa#Translingual

A drink, consumed especially in the Caribbean around Christmas, made from the flowers of Hibiscus sabdariffa: hibiscus tea.


sorrel

From Middle English *sorel, from Middle French *sorel, sorrel, surrel, from Middle French sor (“yellowish-brown, reddish-brown”), probably from Old Frankish *saur (“dried”), from Proto-Germanic *sauzaz (“dry”), from Proto-Indo-European *saus- (“dry, parched”); equivalent to sore (“reddish-brown”) + -el (diminutive suffix). Cognate with Middle Dutch soor (“dry”), Old High German sōrēn (“to become dry”), and Old English sēar (“withered, barren”). See also sere.

suffix

sorrel:


sorrel

A little harmless gossip ensued on various themes, such as where old Aunt Sally got her new red head-kerchief, and how "Missis was a going to give Lizzy that spotted muslin gown, when she 'd got her new berage made up;" and how Mas'r Shelby was thinking of buying a new sorrel colt, that was going to prove an addition to the glories of the place.

1851 June – 1852 April, Harriet Beecher Stowe, chapter 4, in Uncle Tom’s Cabin; or, Life among the Lowly, volume I, Boston, Mass.: John P[unchard] Jewett & Company; Cleveland, Oh.: Jewett, Proctor & Worthington, published 20 March 1852, →OCLC, page 50:

Of a brown colour, with a tint of red. (especially: a sorrel horse)


gules

LL-Q1860 (eng)-I learned some phrases-gules.wav

From Middle English goules, from Old French geule (“animal’s mouth, throat”) via Middle French geules. Compare with French gueules, Portuguese goelas and Spanish gules.

uder

gules:

(heraldry) Red, e.g. on a coat of arms, typically represented in engraving by vertical parallel lines.


gules

The symbol of the Red Cross is a cross gules.

Now is he total gules, horridly tricked

1602, William Shakespeare, Hamlet, ii 2:

You know they still
Call themselves Bulls, though thus degenerate,
And everything relating to a Bull
Is popular and respectable in Thebes.
Their arms are seven Bulls in a field gules;
They think their strength consists in eating beef,—

1820, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Oedipus Tyrannus; Or, Swellfoot The Tyrant: A Tragedy in Two Acts:

(heraldry) In blazon, of the colour red.


Chinese red

Of a vivid red colour tinted with orange.


Creme

de-noun

Creme f (genitive Creme, plural Cremes or Cremen)

Creme (genitive)
Cremes (plural)
Cremen (plural)
Creme (nominative singular)
Cremes (definite nominative plural)
Cremen (definite nominative plural)
Creme (genitive singular)
Cremes (definite genitive plural)
Cremen (definite genitive plural)
Creme (dative singular)
Cremes (dative definite plural)
Cremen (dative definite plural)
Creme (accusative singular)
Cremes (accusative definite plural)
Cremen (accusative definite plural)

→ Hungarian: krém (also via French)

→ Yiddish: קרעם (krem) (possibly)

Crème

standard in Switzerland, optional in Germany


vit

vit (indefinite positive)
vitare (comparative indefinite)
vitast (indefinite superlative)
vitt (indefinite neuter positive singular)
vitare (comparative indefinite neuter singular)
vitast (indefinite neuter singular superlative)
vita (indefinite plural positive)
vitare (comparative indefinite plural)
vitast (indefinite plural superlative)
vite (archaic indefinite masculine plural positive)
vitare (archaic comparative indefinite masculine plural)
vitast (archaic indefinite masculine plural superlative)
vite (definite masculine positive singular)
vitare (comparative definite masculine singular)
vitaste (definite masculine singular superlative)
vita (definite positive)
vitare (comparative definite)
vitaste (definite superlative)

From Old Swedish hvīter, from Old Norse hvítr, from Proto-Germanic *hwītaz, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ḱweytos.

– De ljusa männen äkta ibland mörka kvinnor, och deras barn bli ljusa; men ännu aldrig har en svart man fått en vit kvinna

1917, August Strindberg, “Sagan om Stig Storverks son.”, in Hövdingaminnen, page 11:

– The light men sometimes marry dark women, and their children become light; but yet never has a black man got a white woman.

En politisk affisch där en vit man och en svart kvinna håller om varandra väcker debatt i Sydafrika.

2012, Görrel Espelund, Andreas Karlsson, “Historien väger tungt för Sydafrikas unga”, in Sydsvenskan:

A political poster where a white man and a black woman hug each other is provoking debate in South Africa.

Coordinate term: original

Försäljningen av vitt snus ökade med 255(!) procent medan nikotinfritt snus ökade med 20 procent.

2019, Joakim Almén, “Det här är svenskarnas favoritsnus”, in Café:

White snus sales increased by 255(!) percent while nicotine-free snus increased by 20 percent.

a style of portion snus that has not been post-moisturized, is less runny, and has a more even taste


Braun

de-proper noun

Braun m or f (proper noun, surname, masculine genitive Brauns or (with an article) Braun, feminine genitive Braun, plural Brauns)

Brauns (genitive masculine)
Braun (genitive masculine)
Braun (feminine genitive)
Brauns (plural)

a common surname transferred from the nickname, equivalent to English Brown


Braun

From the adjective braun, from Old High German brūn, from Proto-Germanic *brūnaz.


Henna

de-noun

Henna n or f (strong, genitive Hennas or Henna, no plural)

Hennas (genitive)
Henna (genitive)
Henna (definite nominative singular)
Hennas (definite genitive singular)
Henna (definite genitive singular)
Henna (dative definite singular)
Henna (accusative definite singular)

Lawsonia inermis
Lawsonia inermis#Translingual

(countable) Short for Hennastrauch, a shrub, Lawsonia inermis.

Ob blond, ob braun, ob schwarz, ob Henna / Und manchmal steht er auch auf Männer

1981, Udo Lindenberg (lyrics and music), “Jonny Gigolo”, in Udotopia:

(uncountable) henna (reddish plant substance and color)


Grün

Grün n (strong, genitive Grüns, plural Grüns)

Grüns (genitive)
Grüns (plural)
Grün (nominative singular)
Grüns (definite nominative plural)
Grüns (genitive singular)
Grüns (definite genitive plural)
Grün (dative singular)
Grüns (dative definite plural)
Grün (accusative singular)
Grüns (accusative definite plural)

→ Volapük: grün


Indigo

Indigo m or n (strong, genitive Indigos, plural Indigos)

Indigos (genitive)
Indigos (plural)
Indigo (definite nominative singular)
Indigos (definite nominative plural)
Indigos (genitive singular)
Indigos (definite genitive plural)
Indigo (dative singular)
Indigos (dative definite plural)
Indigo (accusative definite singular)
Indigos (accusative definite plural)

From Spanish índigo, from Latin indicus.

Indigofera, plant traditionally used to produce indigo


Indigo

Indigo n (strong, genitive Indigos, plural Indigos)

indigo, a colour (mostly used without an article)


Indian red

1672 pigment, c. 1810–27 colour and adjective. Indian + red, the pigment originally being an earth obtained from the East Indies.

Having the colour of Indian red pigment.


Lincoln green

From Lincoln, England, where the cloth of this colour was originally produced.

Lincoln green:


Lincoln green

en-adj

Lincoln green (comparative more Lincoln green, superlative most Lincoln green)

more Lincoln green (comparative)
most Lincoln green (superlative)


Magenta

de-noun

Magenta n (strong, genitive Magentas, no plural)

Magentas (genitive)
Magenta (nominative singular)
Magentas (genitive singular)
Magenta (dative singular)
Magenta (accusative singular)


Lid

Lid n (strong, genitive Lides or Lids, plural Lider)

Lides (genitive)
Lids (genitive)
Lider (plural)
Lid (nominative singular)
Lider (definite nominative plural)
Lides (genitive singular)
Lids (genitive singular)
Lider (definite genitive plural)
Lid (dative singular)
Lide (dative singular)
Lidern (dative definite plural)
Lid (accusative singular)
Lider (accusative definite plural)

From Middle High German lit (“lid, cover”), from Old High German hlit, from Proto-West Germanic *hlid.
In the modern sense a shortening of Augenlid. Cognate with Dutch lid (“lid”), English lid.


Rod

From the adjective rod, from Middle High German rōt (“red, red-haired”), from Old High German rōt (“red, scarlet, purple-red, brown-red, yellow-red”), from Proto-West Germanic *raud, from Proto-Germanic *raudaz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁rowdʰós, from *h₁rewdʰ-.


Orange

de-noun

Orange n (strong, genitive Orange, no plural)

Orange (genitive)
Orange (nominative singular)
Orange (genitive singular)
Orange (dative singular)
Orange (accusative singular)


Luna

From Middle English lune, luna (“the moon”), from Latin lūna/Lūna, from Proto-Indo-European *lówksneh₂. Doublet of Roxane.

4. Luna, a Mantle of Estate, Mars doubled Ermine, ouched Sol, garnished with Strings fastned thereunto fretways dependent, and tasselled of the same. [...] These Arms do belong to the Town of Beckbock in Wales.

1693, Richard Blome, The Art of Heraldry, in two parts ... second edition ..., pages 76-77:

George [...] Ist. Mars, three Lions passant guardant in Pale Sol, for the Arms of England, Impal'd with Scotland, i.e. Sol, a Lion rampant within a double Tressure counterflory Mars. 2d. Jupiter, three Fleurs de Lis Sol, for the Arms of France. 3d. Jupiter, an Irish Harp Sol, stringed Luna, for Ireland. 4th. Seme party per Pale, and per Chevron enarche, in the Ist Mars, two Lions passant guardant Sol, for Brunswick. In the 2d Partition Sol, semy of Hearts Mars, and a Lion rampant Jupiter, armed and langued of the First, for Luneburg. The base is Mars, a Horse currant Luna, over these last on an Inescocheon, Constantine's Crown.

1718, Samuel Kent, The Grammar of Heraldry … Second Edition:

8. Tierce in Mantle, first Mars, two Lions passant-guardant in pale, Sol, for Brunswick; 2d Sol, Semi of Hearts proper, a Lion rampant Jupiter, for Lunenburgh; 3d, ente en Point, Mars, an Horse currant Luna, for Saxony.

1735, Francis Nichols, The Irish Compendium … vol. III of the British Compendium, second edition, page 80:

The third, the Ensign of Ireland, which is, Jupiter, an Harp Sol, stringed Luna.

1737, Benjamin Martin, Bibliotheca Technologica: Or, a Philological Library, page 631:

(heraldry, rare) Argent (silver), in the postmedieval practice of blazoning the tinctures of certain sovereigns' (especially British monarchs') coats as planets.


Rot

Rot n (strong, genitive Rots, plural Rots)

Rots (genitive)
Rots (plural)
Rot (nominative singular)
Rots (definite nominative plural)
Rots (genitive singular)
Rots (definite genitive plural)
Rot (dative singular)
Rots (dative definite plural)
Rot (accusative singular)
Rots (accusative definite plural)

German playing cards
German playing cards


Prussian blue

en-noun

Prussian blue (countable and uncountable, plural Prussian blues)

The pigment was discovered circa 1700 in the German state of Prussia by a paint-maker named Diesbach.

(inorganic chemistry) An insoluble dark, bright blue pigment, ferric ferrocyanide (equivalent to ferrous ferricyanide), used in painting and dyeing, and as an antidote for certain kinds of heavy metal poisoning.

Prussian blue:

A moderate to rich blue colour, tinted with deep greenish blue.


Prussian blue

en-adj

Prussian blue (comparative more Prussian blue, superlative most Prussian blue)

more Prussian blue (comparative)
most Prussian blue (superlative)

Of a rich blue colour, tinted with green.


Schwarz

de-noun

Schwarz n (strong, genitive Schwarzes or Schwarz, no plural)

Schwarzes (genitive)
Schwarz (genitive)
Schwarz (nominative singular)
Schwarzes (genitive singular)
Schwarz (genitive singular)
Schwarz (dative singular)
Schwarz (accusative singular)

From the adjective schwarz, from Middle High German swarz, from Old High German swarz, from Proto-West Germanic *swart, from Proto-Germanic *swartaz, from Proto-Indo-European *swordo- (“dirty, dark, black”). Compare German schwarz, Dutch zwart, English swart.


Vandyke brown

en-noun

Vandyke brown (countable and uncountable, plural Vandyke browns)

This colour was named for Sir Anthony Van Dyck, a Flemish painter.

Vandyke brown:

A medium brown colour, originally a pigment made from peat or soil.


Weiß

de-noun

Weiß n (strong, genitive Weiß or Weißes, plural (rare) Weiß)

Weiß (genitive)
Weißes (genitive)
Weiß (plural rare)
Weiß (nominative singular)
Weiß (definite nominative plural rare)
Weiß (genitive singular)
Weißes (genitive singular)
Weiß (definite genitive plural rare)
Weiß (dative singular)
Weiße (dative singular)
Weiß (dative definite plural rare)
Weiß (accusative singular)
Weiß (accusative definite plural rare)


Weiß

de-proper noun

Weiß m or f (proper noun, surname, masculine genitive Weiß' or (with an article) Weiß, feminine genitive Weiß, plural Weiß or Weißens)

Weiß' (genitive masculine)
Weiß (genitive masculine)
Weiß (feminine genitive)
Weiß (plural)
Weißens (plural)
Weiß (masculine nominative singular)
Weiß (feminine nominative singular)
Weiß (definite nominative plural)
Weißens (definite nominative plural)
Weiß' (genitive masculine singular)
Weiß (genitive masculine singular)
Weiß (feminine genitive singular)
Weiß (definite genitive plural)
Weißens (definite genitive plural)
Weiß (dative masculine singular)
Weiß (dative feminine singular)
Weiß (dative definite plural)
Weißens (dative definite plural)
Weiß (accusative masculine singular)
Weiß (accusative feminine singular)
Weiß (accusative definite plural)
Weißens (accusative definite plural)

a common surname transferred from the nickname


Sol

4. Luna, a Mantle of Estate, Mars doubled Ermine, ouched Sol, garnished with Strings fastned thereunto fretways dependent, and tasselled of the same. [...] These Arms do belong to the Town of Beckbock in Wales. 5. Jupiter, a Mace of Majestry in Bend Sol.

George [...] Ist. Mars, three Lions passant guardant in Pale Sol, for the Arms of England, Impal'd with Scotland, i.e. Sol, a Lion rampant within a double Tressure counterflory Mars. 2d. Jupiter, three Fleurs de Lis Sol, for the Arms of France. 3d. Jupiter, an Irish Harp Sol, stringed Luna, for Ireland. 4th. Seme party per Pale, and per Chevron enarche, in the Ist Mars, two Lions passant guardant Sol, for Brunswick. In the 2d Partition Sol, semy of Hearts Mars, and a Lion rampant Jupiter, armed and langued of the First, for Luneburg.

8. Tierce in Mantle, first Mars, two Lions passant-guardant in pale, Sol, for Brunswick; 2d Sol, Semi of Hearts proper, a Lion rampant Jupiter, for Lunenburgh;

ARMS. QUARTERLY, in the first grand Quarter Mars, three Lions passant-guardant in Pale, Sol; the Imperial Ensigns of England, impaled with the Royal Arms of Scotland, which are Sol, a Lion rampant within a double Tressure flower'd and counterflower'd with Fleurs-de-lis, Mars. The second Quarter is the Royal Arms of France, viz. Jupiter, three Fleurs-de-lis, Sol. The third, the Ensign of Ireland, which is, Jupiter, an Harp Sol, stringed Luna.

(heraldry, rare) Or (gold), in the postmedieval practice of blazoning the tinctures of certain sovereigns' (especially British monarchs') coats as planets.


Tyrian purple

en-noun

Tyrian purple (countable and uncountable, plural Tyrian purples)

A deep purple dyestuff obtained from the bodies of mollusks of certain species of the family Muricidae, originally certain of those of the eastern Mediterranean, now also other species from elsewhere.

Tyrian purple:

A deep purple colour, tinted with red, like that of the dye.


Tyrian purple

Of a deep purple colour, tinted with red, like that of the dye.


Rosa

a female given name, equivalent to English Rose


niger

la-adj

niger (feminine nigra, neuter nigrum, superlative nigerrimus); first/second-declension adjective (nominative masculine singular in -er)

nigra (feminine)
nigrum (neuter)
nigerrimus (superlative)
in -er (masculine nominative singular)
niger (masculine nominative singular)
nigra (feminine nominative singular)
nigrum (neuter nominative singular)
nigrī (masculine nominative plural)
nigrae (feminine nominative plural)
nigra (neuter nominative plural)
nigrī (genitive masculine singular)
nigrae (feminine genitive singular)
nigrī (genitive neuter singular)
nigrōrum (genitive masculine plural)
nigrārum (feminine genitive plural)
nigrōrum (genitive neuter plural)
nigrō (dative masculine singular)
nigrae (dative feminine singular)
nigrō (dative neuter singular)
nigrīs (dative feminine masculine neuter plural)
nigrum (accusative masculine singular)
nigram (accusative feminine singular)
nigrum (accusative neuter singular)
nigrōs (accusative masculine plural)
nigrās (accusative feminine plural)
nigra (accusative neuter plural)
nigrō (ablative masculine singular)
nigrā (ablative feminine singular)
nigrō (ablative neuter singular)
nigrīs (ablative feminine masculine neuter plural)
niger (masculine singular vocative)
nigra (feminine singular vocative)
nigrum (neuter singular vocative)
nigrī (masculine plural vocative)
nigrae (feminine plural vocative)
nigra (neuter plural vocative)

Balkan Romance:

Aromanian: negru, negur, neguru

Istro-Romanian: negru

Megleno-Romanian: negru

Romanian: negru

Italo-Romance:

Corsican: negru, neru

Italian: negro, nero

Neapolitan: niro

Sicilian: nìuru, niuru, nivuru

North Italian:

Gallo-Italic:

Emilian: naigher

Ligurian: neigro

Lombard: negar, negher

Piedmontese: neir, négher

Romagnol: négar, nìgar

Friulian: neri

Istriot: nìgro, nìgaro

Ladin: neigher

Romansch: nair, neir, ner, negher

Venetan: nero

→ Dalmatian: niar

Gallo-Romance:

Franco-Provençal: nêr

desctree

Old French: noir, neir
Champenois: nor
Middle French: noir (see there for further descendants)
Norman: nièr, né, naer, nei
Walloon: noer

Occitano-Romance:

Catalan: negre

→ Aragonese: negre

Gascon: nere

Old Occitan: negre, ner, neir
Occitan: negre, ner, nèir

Ibero-Romance:

Aragonese: negro

Old Leonese: [Term?]

Asturian: negru, ñegru, nigru, ñiegru

Extremaduran: negru

Leonese: negru

Mirandese: negro

Old Galician-Portuguese: negro
Galician: negro
Portuguese: negro
Papiamentu: negru

Spanish: negro (see there for further descendants)

Borrowings:

→ Ido: nigra

→ Interlingua: nigre

Uncertain origin, but possibly from Proto-Indo-European *negʷ- (“bare, naked”) if this root is assumed also to be the source of *nókʷts (“night”) (Latin nox), thus “black” would attest the intermediate meaning between “bare” and “night”. Possibly cognate with Umbrian niru (“(possibly) dark, black”), though this form (thought to be accusative singular) is not mentioned in de Vaan.

der

Nigrum in candida vertere.

For quotations using this term, see Citations:niger.

wan, shining black (as opposed to āter, dull black)


glaucous

en-adj

glaucous (comparative more glaucous, superlative most glaucous)

more glaucous (comparative)
most glaucous (superlative)

From Latin glaucus, from Ancient Greek γλαυκός (glaukós, “blue-green, blue-grey”), 1670s. See Irish glas.

der

glaucous:

I realised I was the only shopper in that rather eerie place where I moved about fishlike, in a glaucous aquarium […]

[…] inside you could see the wires and cables that ran aft to the rudder and elevators and the cracked and curled and sunblacked leather of the seats and in their tarnished nickel bezels the glass of instrument dials glaucous and clouded from the pumicing of the desert sands.

Traveling at sea for the first time is a chance to realize that the ocean is not one ocean. The water changes. The Atlantic that seethes off the eastern U.S. is glaucous and lightless and looks mean. Around Jamaica, though, it’s more like a milky aquamarine, and translucent.

1997, David Foster Wallace, “A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again”, in A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again, Kindle edition, Little, Brown Book Group:

Of a pale grey or bluish-green, especially when covered with a powdery residue.

сивозеленикав

of a pale green colour with a bluish-grey tinge

glauque (typically greener, whereas English glaucous is bluer)


cherry red

Of a deep bright red colour, like that of a cherry.


mata

From Proto-Oceanic *mata, from Proto-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian *mata, from Proto-Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian *mata, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *mata, from Proto-Austronesian *maCa.

lamp or lantern, any object used to shed light


mata

From Proto-Philippine *mata, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *mata, from Proto-Austronesian *maCa.
Compare Japanese 目(め) (me, “eye”) / 眼(め) (me, “eye”) + 戸(と) (to, “door”) = 窓(まど) (mado, “window”).

Japanese language
Proto-Austronesian language
Proto-Malayo-Polynesian language
Proto-Philippine language


mata

From Proto-Polynesian *mata. Cognates include Hawaiian maka and Samoan mata.


cool grey

cool grey:


은

Korean reading of various Chinese characters.

More information(eumhun reading: 은혜 은 (eunhye eun))
(MC reading: 恩 (MC 'on))(eumhun reading: 은 은 (eun eun))
(MC reading: 銀 (MC ngin))(eumhun reading: 숨다 은 (sumda eun))
(MC reading: 隱 (MC 'j+nX|'j+nH))(MC reading: 垠 (MC ngin|ngj+n|ngon))(MC reading: 殷 (MC 'j+n|'ean))(MC reading: 誾 (MC ngin))(MC reading: 溵 (MC 'j+n))(MC reading: 珢 (MC ngin))(MC reading: 慇 (MC 'j+n))(MC reading: 濦)(MC reading: 㒚 (MC 'j+nH))(MC reading: 听 (MC ngjinX|ngj+nX))(eumhun reading: 사람 이름 은 (saram ireum eun))
(MC reading: 𤨒)(MC reading: 圻 (MC ngj+n|ngon))(MC reading: 蘟)(MC reading: 檼 (MC 'j+nH))(MC reading: 檃)(MC reading: 蒑)(MC reading: 泿 (MC ngin|ngon))(MC reading: 蒽)(MC reading: 憖 (MC nginH))(MC reading: 圁 (MC ngin))(MC reading: 嶾 (MC 'j+nX))(MC reading: 𪙤 (MC ngjinX))(MC reading: 𰜩)(MC reading: 嚚 (MC ngin))(MC reading: 垽 (MC nginH|ngj+nH))(MC reading: 狺 (MC ngin|ngj+n))(MC reading: 癮 (MC 'j+nX))(MC reading: 訔 (MC ngin))(MC reading: 鄞 (MC ngin|ngj+n))(MC reading: 齗 (MC ngj+n|ngjinX))(MC reading: 𨶡)


Gleitsichtbrille

de-noun

Gleitsichtbrille f (genitive Gleitsichtbrille, plural Gleitsichtbrillen)

Gleitsichtbrille (genitive)
Gleitsichtbrillen (plural)
Gleitsichtbrille (nominative singular)
Gleitsichtbrillen (definite nominative plural)
Gleitsichtbrille (genitive singular)
Gleitsichtbrillen (definite genitive plural)
Gleitsichtbrille (dative singular)
Gleitsichtbrillen (dative definite plural)
Gleitsichtbrille (accusative singular)
Gleitsichtbrillen (accusative definite plural)


bice green

en-adj

bice green (comparative more bice green, superlative most bice green)

more bice green (comparative)
most bice green (superlative)

Of a bright green colour, like that of a leaf.