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violet

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English

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an African violet (plant)

Etymology

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    Etymology tree
    Latin viola
    Old French -ette
    Old French violettebor.
    Middle English violet
    English violet

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

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    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 Asbjørnsen, 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.
    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.

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    • → Tokelauan: vaioleti, vaiolē, violē

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    Adjective

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    violet (comparative violeter, superlative violetest)

    1. Of a violet colour.

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

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    Afrikaans

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    Etymology

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

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    violet (attributive violette, not comparable)

    1. violet-coloured

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    violet (plural violette)

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

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    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

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    Etymology

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    Borrowed from French violet.

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    violet n (plural violetten, diminutive violetje n)

    1. violet, a purplish colour

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    violet (comparative violetter, superlative violetst)

    1. violet-coloured

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

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    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

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    • M. J. Koenen & J. Endepols, Verklarend Handwoordenboek der Nederlandse Taal (tevens Vreemde-woordentolk), Groningen, Wolters-Noordhoff, 1969 (26th edition) [Dutch dictionary in Dutch]

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    French

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    Etymology

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

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    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

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

    1. purple

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    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

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    Latin

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    Verb

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    violet

    1. third-person singular present active subjunctive of violō

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      From Old French violette, from Latin viola.

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      • IPA(key): /ˈviːɔlɛt/, /ˈviːəlɛt/

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      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

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      violet

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

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      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              blewe, blo, pers
                   violet; inde              rose, murrey; purpel, purpur              claret

      Romanian

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      Etymology

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      Borrowed from French violet.

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

      1. purple
        Synonym: mov

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      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.

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      Declension of violet
      singular plural
      masculine neuter feminine masculine neuter feminine
      nominative/
      accusative       		indefinite violet violetă violeți violete
      definite violetul violeta violeții violetele
      genitive/
      dative       		indefinite violet violete violeți violete
      definite violetului violetei violeților violetelor

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      violet n (uncountable)

      1. purple (color)
        Synonym: mov

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      declension of violet (singular only)
      singular
      n gender indefinite articulation definite articulation
      nominative/accusative (un) violet violetul
      genitive/dative (unui) violet violetului
      vocative violetule
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      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

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      Etymology

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

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

      1. purple
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