Pigment

//ˈpɪɡ.mənt// noun, verb

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Any color in plant or animal cells.

    "Chlorophyll is the pigment responsible for most plants' green colouring."

  2. 2
    a substance used as a coating to protect or decorate a surface (especially a mixture of pigment suspended in a liquid); dries to form a hard coating wordnet
  3. 3
    A dry colorant, usually an insoluble powder.

    "Umber is a pigment made from clay containing iron and manganese oxide."

  4. 4
    dry coloring material (especially a powder to be mixed with a liquid to produce paint, etc.) wordnet
  5. 5
    Wine flavoured with spices and honey. obsolete

    "Oswald, broach the oldest wine-cask; place the best mead, the richest morat, the most sparkling cyder, the most odoriferous pigment, upon the board; […]"

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  1. 6
    any substance whose presence in plant or animal tissues produces a characteristic color wordnet
Verb
  1. 1
    To add color or pigment to something. transitive
  2. 2
    color or dye with a pigment wordnet
  3. 3
    acquire pigment; become colored or imbued wordnet

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Middle English pigment, from Latin pigmentum (“pigment”), itself from pingō (“I paint”) + -mentum; variants of this word may have been known in Old English (e.g. 12th century pyhmentum). Doublet of pimiento, pimento, and piment.

Etymology 2

From Middle English pigment, from Latin pigmentum (“pigment”), itself from pingō (“I paint”) + -mentum; variants of this word may have been known in Old English (e.g. 12th century pyhmentum). Doublet of pimiento, pimento, and piment.

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