violet
Noun · AdjectiveOpen English WordNet
Noun (2)violets
- any of numerous low-growing violas with small flowersType of violaKinds sweet white violet, Canada violet, two-eyed violet, downy yellow violet, bird's-foot violet, long-spurred violet, hedge violet, pale violet, sweet violet, dog violet +1 more
- a variable color that lies beyond blue in the spectrumSynonyms: reddish blueType of purple, purplenessKinds bishop's purple, indigo
Adjective (1)
- of a color intermediate between red and blueSynonyms: purplepurplishOpposite achromaticSimilar chromatic
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Translations
Noun colour
- Spanish
- violeta
- French
- violet
- German
- Violett
- Italian
- violetto
- Portuguese
- violeta
- Turkish
- menekşe rengi
- Russian
- фиоле́товый цвет fiolétovyj cvet
- Arabic
- بَنَفْسَجِيّ banafsajiyy
- Chinese
- 紫罗兰色 zǐluólánsè
- Japanese
- すみれ色 sumire-iro
31 more languages
- Dutch
- violet
- Polish
- fiolet
- Swedish
- violett
- Greek
- βιολετί violetí
- Korean
- 보라색 borasaek
- Vietnamese
- tím
- Hungarian
- ibolyaszín
- Portuguese (PT)
- violeta
- Chinese (Trad.)
- 紫羅蘭色 zǐluólánsè
- Albanian
- vjollcë
- Breton
- glas-ruz
- Catalan
- violeta
- Czech
- fialový
- Danish
- violet
- Esperanto
- viola
- Estonian
- violetne
- Finnish
- violetti
- Georgian
- იისფერი iisperi
- Hebrew
- סָגֹל sagól
- Icelandic
- fjólublár
- Kurdish
- binefşî
- Latvian
- violets
- Lithuanian
- violetinė
- Malagasy
- volomparasy
- Norwegian
- fiolett
- Romanian
- violet
- Serbo-Croatian
- lila
- Slovak
- fialový
- Slovenian
- vijoličen
- Swahili
- urujuani
- Welsh
- fioled
The main translation for each meaning, from the langtolang.com multilingual dictionary. Each word links to its full entry there.
Webster's Dictionary (1913)
Origin: F. violette a violet (cf. violet violet-colored), dim. of OF. viole a violet, L. viola; akin to Gr. …. Cf. Iodine.
1. Botany Any plant or flower of the genus Viola, of many species. The violets are generally low, herbaceous plants, and the flowers of many of the species are blue, while others are white or yellow, or of several colors, as the pansy (Viola tricolor).
☞ The cultivated sweet violet is Viola odorata of Europe. The common blue violet of the eastern United States is Viola cucullata; the sand, or bird-foot, violet is Viola pedata.
2. The color of a violet, or that part of the spectrum farthest from red. It is the most refrangible part of the spectrum.
3. In art, a color produced by a combination of red and blue in equal proportions; a bluish purple color. John W. Mollett
4. Zoology Any one of numerous species of small violet-colored butterflies belonging to Lycaena, or Rusticus, and allied genera.
Corn violet. See under Corn. — Dame's violet. Botany See Damewort. — Dogtooth violet. Botany See under Dogtooth. — Water violet Botany, an aquatic European herb (Hottonia palustris) with pale purplish flowers and pinnatifid leaves.
Origin: Cf. F. violet. See Violet, noun
Dark blue, inclining to red; bluish purple; having a color produced by red and blue combined.
Violet shell Zoology, any species of Ianthina; — called also violet snail. See Ianthina. — Violet wood, a name given to several kinds of hard purplish or reddish woods, as king wood, myall wood, and the wood of the Andira violacea, a tree of Guiana.
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54