adj
Meaning 1
Of the purplish red colour shade carmine.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Standard Lemma guide
carmine
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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UK: /ˈkɑːmaɪn/
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US: /ˈkɑɹmaɪn/
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name
Meaning 2
A male given name from Italian.
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name
Meaning 3
A surname from Italian.
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noun
Meaning 4
A purplish-red pigment, made from dye obtained from the cochineal beetle; carminic acid or any of its derivatives.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Examples
- 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.
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noun
Meaning 5
A purplish-red colour, resembling that pigment.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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adjective satellite
Meaning 6
of a color at the end of the color spectrum (next to orange); resembling the color of blood or cherries or tomatoes or rubies
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: red, reddish, ruddy, blood-red, cerise, cherry, cherry-red, crimson, ruby, ruby-red, scarlet
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noun
Meaning 7
a variable color averaging a vivid red
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: cardinal
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: red, redness
verb
Meaning 8
color carmine
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: redden
History
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.
The given name is borrowed from Italian Carmine.
Across languages
Translations
77 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Bulgarian: тъмночервен (tǎmnočerven) — of the purplish red colour shade carmine
- Catalan: carmí — of the purplish red colour shade carmine
- Dutch: karmijnrood — of the purplish red colour shade carmine
- Dutch: karmozijnrood — of the purplish red colour shade carmine
- Dutch: karmijnen — of the purplish red colour shade carmine
- Dutch: karmozijnen — of the purplish red colour shade carmine
- Finnish: karmiininpunainen — of the purplish red colour shade carmine
- German: karminrot — of the purplish red colour shade carmine
- Hindi: क़िरमिज़ी (qirmizī) — of the purplish red colour shade carmine
- Hindi: किरमिजी (kirmijī) — of the purplish red colour shade carmine
- Ido: karminea — of the purplish red colour shade carmine
- Italian: carminio — of the purplish red colour shade carmine
- Polish: karminowy — of the purplish red colour shade carmine
- Portuguese: carmim — of the purplish red colour shade carmine
- Portuguese: carmesim — of the purplish red colour shade carmine
- Romanian: carmin — of the purplish red colour shade carmine
- Romanian: stacojiu — of the purplish red colour shade carmine
- Romanian: cârmâziu — of the purplish red colour shade carmine
- Russian: карми́нный (karmínnyj) — of the purplish red colour shade carmine
- Spanish: carmín — of the purplish red colour shade carmine
- Armenian: որդան կարմիր (ordan karmir) — purplish-red pigment
- Bulgarian: кармин (karmin) — purplish-red pigment
- Catalan: carmí — purplish-red pigment
- Chinese Mandarin: 洋紅 /洋红 (yánghóng) — purplish-red pigment
- Czech: karmín — purplish-red pigment
- Dutch: karmijn — purplish-red pigment
- Dutch: karmozijn — purplish-red pigment
- Esperanto: karmino — purplish-red pigment
- Finnish: karmiini — purplish-red pigment
- German: Karmin — purplish-red pigment
- Greek: καρμίνη (karmíni) — purplish-red pigment
- Hebrew: כַּרְמִיל (karmíl) — purplish-red pigment
- Hindi: क़िरमिज़ (qirmiz) — purplish-red pigment
- Hindi: क़िरमिज़ी (qirmizī) — purplish-red pigment
- Hindi: किरमिजी (kirmijī) — purplish-red pigment
- Hungarian: kármin — purplish-red pigment
- Ido: karmino — purplish-red pigment
- Italian: carminio — purplish-red pigment
- Latin: cocceus — purplish-red pigment
- Polish: karmin — purplish-red pigment
- Portuguese: carmim — purplish-red pigment
- Portuguese: carmesim — purplish-red pigment
- Romanian: carmin — purplish-red pigment
- Romanian: cârmâz — purplish-red pigment
- Romanian: coșenilă — purplish-red pigment
- Russian: карми́н (karmín) — purplish-red pigment
- Spanish: carmín — purplish-red pigment
- Turkish: karmin — purplish-red pigment
- Armenian: որդան կարմիր (ordan karmir) — purplish-red colour
- Bulgarian: тъмночервен цвят (tǎmnočerven cvjat) — purplish-red colour
- Catalan: carmí — purplish-red colour
- Catalan: grana — purplish-red colour
- Dutch: karmijn — purplish-red colour
- Dutch: karmozijn — purplish-red colour
- Dutch: karmijnrood — purplish-red colour
- Dutch: karmozijnrood — purplish-red colour
- Finnish: karmiininpunainen — purplish-red colour
- German: Karmin — purplish-red colour
- Greek: καρμίνη (karmíni) — purplish-red colour
- Hindi: क़िरमिज़ (qirmiz) — purplish-red colour
- Hindi: क़िरमिज़ी (qirmizī) — purplish-red colour
- Hindi: किरमिजी (kirmijī) — purplish-red colour
- Hungarian: kármin — purplish-red colour
- Ido: karmino — purplish-red colour
- Indonesian: merah padam — purplish-red colour
- Italian: carminio — purplish-red colour
- Italian: granata — purplish-red colour
- Italian: amaranto — purplish-red colour
- Italian: cremisi — purplish-red colour
- Polish: karminowy — purplish-red colour
- Polish: karmin — purplish-red colour
- Portuguese: carmim — purplish-red colour
- Portuguese: carmesim — purplish-red colour
- Romanian: carmin — purplish-red colour
- Russian: карми́нный (karmínnyj) — purplish-red colour
- Spanish: carmín — purplish-red colour
- Vietnamese: đỏ yên chi — purplish-red colour