Skip to content
ontologydriven
Sign out

Dictionary

Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

carmine en · ADJ

Pronunciation

  • /ˈkɑːmaɪn/ (UK)
  • (Southern-England) audio
  • /ˈkɑɹmaɪn/ (US)

Etymology

PIE word *kʷŕ̥mis Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *kʷŕ̥mis Proto-Indo-Iranian *kŕ̥miš Persian کرمست* (*kermest)bor. Arabic قِرْمِز (qirmiz)bor. Medieval Latin *carminium? French carminder. English carmine From French carmin, from irregular Medieval Latin carminium, itself from Arabic قِرْمِز (qirmiz, “crimson, kermes”) from Persian *کرمست (*kermest), ultimately from Proto-Indo-Iranian *kŕ̥miš (“worm”), plus or with influence from Latin minium. Compare crimson and kermes.

Meanings

  1. Of the purplish red colour shade carmine.

Translations (20)

ru карми́нный (of the purplish red colour shade carmine) · hi किरमिजी (of the purplish red colour shade carmine) · bg тъмночервен (of the purplish red colour shade carmine) · nl karmozijnen (of the purplish red colour shade carmine) · pt carmesim (of the purplish red colour shade carmine) · ca carmí (of the purplish red colour shade carmine) · ro carmin (of the purplish red colour shade carmine) · fi karmiininpunainen (of the purplish red colour shade carmine) · hi क़िरमिज़ी (of the purplish red colour shade carmine) · pl karminowy (of the purplish red colour shade carmine) · nl karmozijnrood (of the purplish red colour shade carmine) · nl karmijnrood (of the purplish red colour shade carmine) · ro cârmâziu (of the purplish red colour shade carmine) · nl karmijnen (of the purplish red colour shade carmine) · it carminio (of the purplish red colour shade carmine) · io karminea (of the purplish red colour shade carmine) · de karminrot (of the purplish red colour shade carmine) · es carmín (of the purplish red colour shade carmine) · pt carmim (of the purplish red colour shade carmine) · ro stacojiu (of the purplish red colour shade carmine)

carmine en · NOUN

Pronunciation

  • /ˈkɑːmaɪn/ (UK)
  • (Southern-England) audio
  • /ˈkɑɹmaɪn/ (US)

Etymology

PIE word *kʷŕ̥mis Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *kʷŕ̥mis Proto-Indo-Iranian *kŕ̥miš Persian کرمست* (*kermest)bor. Arabic قِرْمِز (qirmiz)bor. Medieval Latin *carminium? French carminder. English carmine From French carmin, from irregular Medieval Latin carminium, itself from Arabic قِرْمِز (qirmiz, “crimson, kermes”) from Persian *کرمست (*kermest), ultimately from Proto-Indo-Iranian *kŕ̥miš (“worm”), plus or with influence from Latin minium. Compare crimson and kermes.

Meanings

  1. (countable, uncountable) A purplish-red pigment, made from dye obtained from the cochineal beetle; carminic acid or any of its derivatives.
    • 1967, Time, "The Case of the Dubious Dye," 6 January, 1967, https://web.archive.org/web/20130721101257/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,843172,00.html Cases of cubana salmonellosis in three other states were traced to carmine red, and supplies were called in. […] But authorities have been checking other places for carmine red, knowing that it is a favorite coloring in candy, chewing gum, ice cream, cough syrups and drugs. Manufacturers like to use it because of a legal quirk: being a natural rather than a synthetic product, it does not have to be mentioned on labels.
  2. (countable, uncountable) A purplish-red colour, resembling that pigment.
    • He pictured himself in an adobe house in Mexico, half-reclining on a rug-covered couch, his slender, artistic fingers closed on a cigarette while he listened to guitars strumming melancholy undertones to an age-old dirge of Castile and an olive-skinned, carmine-lipped girl caressed his hair. 1920, F. Scott Fitzgerald, chapter 5, in This Side of Paradise:
    • He wore a great coat in midsummer, being affected with the trembling delirium, and his face was the color of carmine. 1854, Henry David Thoreau, chapter XIV, in Walden, New York: Thomas Y. Crowell & Co, published 1910, page 347:
    • The velvet I seen was brown, but in Boston they got all colors. Carmine. That means red but when you talk about velvet you got to say 'carmine.' 1987, Toni Morrison, Beloved, New York: Vintage, published 2004, page 33:
    • I am alive, I guess, / The branches on my hand / Are full of morning-glory, / And at my fingers' end / The carmine tingles warm, c. 1862, Emily Dickinson, “(please specify the chapter or poem)”, in M[abel] L[oomis] Todd and M[illicent] T[odd] Bingham, editors, Bolts of Melody, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Row, published 1945, page 140:
    • […] the dawn breaking behind the hill-tops in our rear, the first narrow streaks of gold, like swords slitting the darkness, and then the growing light and the seas of carmine cloud stretching away into inconceivable distances […] 1938 April, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], chapter IV, in Homage to Catalonia, London: Secker & Warburg, →OCLC:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
carmines Number=Plur lexicographic

Deriveds

carmine red · azocarmine · carmalum · acetocarmine · carmined · indigo carmine · carminated · paracarmine · carminic · picrocarmine

Synonyms

E120 (pigment) · C.I. 75470 (pigment) · crimson (pigment) · cochineal (pigment)

Translations (57)

fi karmiininpunainen (purplish-red colour) · nl karmijn (purplish-red pigment) · it granata (purplish-red colour) · pl karmin (purplish-red pigment) · nl karmozijn (purplish-red pigment) · nl karmozijn (purplish-red colour) · fi karmiini (purplish-red pigment) · pt carmesim (purplish-red colour) · he כַּרְמִיל (purplish-red pigment) · es carmín (purplish-red pigment) · hi किरमिजी (purplish-red pigment) · hy որդան կարմիր (purplish-red pigment) · ro cârmâz (purplish-red pigment) · io karmino (purplish-red colour) · nl karmijnrood (purplish-red colour) · nl karmijn (purplish-red colour) · pt carmim (purplish-red pigment) · hi क़िरमिज़ी (purplish-red colour) · de Karmin (purplish-red pigment) · la cocceus (purplish-red pigment) · it carminio (purplish-red colour) · pt carmim (purplish-red colour) · id merah padam (purplish-red colour) · ro carmin (purplish-red colour) · nl karmozijnrood (purplish-red colour) · pl karminowy (purplish-red colour) · hi क़िरमिज़ (purplish-red pigment) · ca carmí (purplish-red colour) · ca grana (purplish-red colour) · hi किरमिजी (purplish-red colour) · es carmín (purplish-red colour) · hy որդան կարմիր (purplish-red colour) · el καρμίνη (purplish-red pigment) · de Karmin (purplish-red colour) · it cremisi (purplish-red colour) · ru карми́н (purplish-red pigment) · ro carmin (purplish-red pigment) · bg кармин (purplish-red pigment) · ru карми́нный (purplish-red colour) · cs karmín (purplish-red pigment) · hi क़िरमिज़ी (purplish-red pigment) · hu kármin (purplish-red pigment) · hi क़िरमिज़ (purplish-red colour) · hu kármin (purplish-red colour) · eo karmino (purplish-red pigment) · bg тъмночервен цвят (purplish-red colour) · pt carmesim (purplish-red pigment) · ro coșenilă (purplish-red pigment) · it amaranto (purplish-red colour) · it carminio (purplish-red pigment) · cmn 洋紅 /洋红 (purplish-red pigment) · ca carmí (purplish-red pigment) · io karmino (purplish-red pigment) · pl karmin (purplish-red colour) · tr karmin (purplish-red pigment) · vi đỏ yên chi (purplish-red colour) · el καρμίνη (purplish-red colour)