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an African violet (plant)

color

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violet

Several of the most common color words in English

Middle English violet

English violet

Inherited from Middle English violet, vyolet, vyolette, from Old French violette, from Latin viola (“violet”) + -ette. Cognate with Lithuanian violetinė (“purple, violet”) and Spanish violeta (“purple, violet”).

violet (plural violets)

  1. A plant or flower of the genus Viola, especially the fragrant Viola odorata; (inexact) similar-looking plants and flowers.
    Synonym: (historical US) rooster
    • 1886, Peter Christen Asbj&oslash￵rnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 160:
      Refreshed by their cooling bath of evening dew, the violets and other nocturnal flowers emitted a pleasant fragrance over the fields, but from the bogs and the rivulets came up now and then damp, penetrating gusts, that sent an icy chill through me.
    • 1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 68:
      Albertus Magnus, the thirteenth century philosopher and occultist, states that coriander, valerian, and violet are love producing herbs.
  2. (figurative) A person thought to resemble V. odorata, especially in its beauty and delicacy.
  3. The color of most violets; the colour evoked by the shortest visible wavelengths between 380 and 435 nm, an additive tertiary colour.
    violet:
    web violet:
  4. Clothes and (ecclesiastical) vestments of such a colour.
  5. (perfumes) The characteristic scent of V. odorata.
  6. (UK dialect) Synonym of onion (“vegetable”).

colour

plant

violet (comparative violeter, superlative violetest)

  1. Of a violet colour.

having a bluish-purple color

Colo(u)rs in English (layout · text)
red orange yellow green blue (incl. indigo) purple / violet
magenta, pink brown cyan, teal, turquoise white gray/grey black

From Dutch violet, borrowed from French violet, from Latin viola (“violet”).

violet (attributive violette, not comparable)

  1. violet-coloured

violet (plural violette)

  1. (uncountable) violet, a purplish colour
  2. (botany) violet, viola
    Synonym: viooltjie

Colors in Afrikaans · kleure (layout · text)

wit grys swart
rooi; karmosyn oranje; bruin geel; room
lemmetjie groen mentgroen
siaan; teel asuur, hemelsblou blou
violet; indigo magenta; pers pienk

From French violet, from Latin viola.

violet (plural and definite singular attributive violette)

  1. violet
    Synonym: blålilla
  2. (nominalized) violet (colour)

Inflection of violet

| | positive | comparative | superlative | | | -------------------------- | -------------------------------------------- | ----------- | -- | | indefinite common singular | violet | — | —2 | | indefinite neuter singular | violet | — | —2 | | plural | violette | — | —2 | | definite attributive1 | violette | — | — |

1 When an adjective is applied predicatively to something definite,
the corresponding "indefinite" form is used.
2 The "indefinite" superlatives may not be used attributively.

Colors in Danish · farver (layout · text)

hvid grå sort
rød; højrød, mørkerød orange; brun gul; flødefarvet
lime, lysegrøn grøn, mørkegrøn mintgrøn
cyan; turkis, lyseblå azurblå, himmelblå blå, mørkeblå
violet; indigo magenta; lilla lyserød, rosa

Borrowed from French violet.

violet n (plural violetten, diminutive violetje n)

  1. violet, a purplish colour

violet (comparative violetter, superlative violetst)

  1. violet-coloured
Declension of violet
uninflected violet
inflected violette
comparative violetter
positive comparative superlative
predicative/adverbial violet violetter het violetsthet violetste
indefinite m./f. sing. violette violettere violetste
n. sing. violet violetter violetste
plural violette violettere violetste
definite violette violettere violetste
partitive violets violetters —

Colors in Dutch · kleuren (layout · text)

wit grijs zwart
rood; karmijnrood oranje; bruin geel; roomwit
groengeel/limoengroen groen
blauwgroen/cyaan; groenblauw/petrolblauw azuurblauw blauw
violet; indigo magenta; paars roze

From Old French violet, a back-formation from violette (“violet (flower)”), from viole + -ette, from Latin viola.

violet m (countable and uncountable, plural violets)

  1. (usually uncountable) purple (colour)
  2. (countable) mushroom with a violet cap, such as a webcap or cortinar

violet (feminine violette, masculine plural violets, feminine plural violettes)

  1. purple

Colors in French · couleurs (layout · text)

blanc gris noir
rouge; cramoisi, carmin orange; brun, marron jaune; crème
lime vert menthe
cyan, turquoise; bleu canard azur, bleu ciel bleu
violet, lilas; indigo magenta; pourpre rose

violet

  1. third-person singular present active subjunctive of violō

From Old French violette, from Latin viola.

violet (uncountable)

  1. violet (plant in the genus Viola)
  2. The flower of such a plant
  3. violet, blue-purple (colour)
  4. violet-coloured cloth

violet

  1. violet-coloured
  2. Made of violet-coloured cloth

Colors in Middle English · coloures, hewes (layout · text)

whit grey, hor blak
red; cremesyn, gernet citrine, aumbre; broun, tawne yelow, dorry, gul; canevas
grasgrene grene
plunket; ewage asure, livid blew, blo, pers
violet; inde rose, murrey; purpel, purpur claret

violet m (feminine singular violeta, masculine plural violets, feminine plural violetas)

  1. purple

Borrowed from French violet.

violet m or n (feminine singular violetă, masculine plural violeți, feminine/neuter plural violete)

  1. purple
    Synonym: mov

As with other color words borrowed from French, violet is often used as an invariable adjective, but this usage is proscribed by the Romanian Academy.

violet n (uncountable)

  1. purple (color)
    Synonym: mov

Colors in Romanian · culori (layout · text)

alb gri negru
roșu; carmin portocaliu; maro galben; crem
verde verde mentă
cyan bleu albastru
violet; indigo mov; purpură roz

Borrowed from Old French violette, from Latin viola (“violet”).

violet m (feminine singular violetta, masculine plural violets, feminine plural violettas)

  1. purple