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Violet

//ˈvaɪ.ə.lət// adj, name, noun

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Of a violet colour.
Adjective
  1. 1
    of a color intermediate between red and blue wordnet
Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A female given name from English.

    "It may be as well to say, by way of parenthesis, that her real name was Violante,―at least, such was the name by which her mother had her christened. But her father thought it much too long, and said it was better to call her Violet."

  2. 2
    A surname.
  3. 3
    A number of places in the United States:; A census-designated place in St. Bernard Parish, Louisiana.
  4. 4
    A number of places in the United States:; An unincorporated community in Polk County, Missouri.
  5. 5
    A number of places in the United States:; An unincorporated community in Nueces County, Texas.
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  1. 6
    A number of places in the United States:; An unincorporated community in Pocahontas County, West Virginia.
  2. 7
    A community in Loyalist, Lennox and Addington County, Ontario, Canada.
Noun
  1. 1
    A plant or flower of the genus Viola, especially the fragrant Viola odorata; (inexact) similar-looking plants and flowers.

    "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. 2
    a variable color that lies beyond blue in the spectrum wordnet
  3. 3
    A person thought to resemble V. odorata, especially in its beauty and delicacy. figuratively

    "‘Tom,’ he said, ‘you are looking at a crushed violet, a spent egg, a squeezed tube.’"

  4. 4
    any of numerous low-growing violas with small flowers wordnet
  5. 5
    The color of most violets; the colour evoked by the shortest visible wavelengths between 380 and 435 nm, an additive tertiary colour.
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  1. 6
    Clothes and (ecclesiastical) vestments of such a colour.
  2. 7
    The characteristic scent of V. odorata.
  3. 8
    Synonym of onion (“vegetable”). UK, dialectal

Etymology

Etymology 1

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”) + -ette. Cognate with Lithuanian violetinė (“purple, violet”) and Spanish violeta (“purple, violet”).

Etymology 2

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”) + -ette. Cognate with Lithuanian violetinė (“purple, violet”) and Spanish violeta (“purple, violet”).

Etymology 3

A 19th century flower name from violet, sometimes as an anglicisation of the earlier French Violette.

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