different between carmine vs carline

English

Etymology

From French carmin, from irregular Medieval Latin carminium, itself from Arabic ???????? (qirmiz, “crimson, kermes”) (from Sanskrit ????? (k?mija, “produced by worms”), from ???? (k??mi, “worm, insect”)), plus or with influence from Latin minium. Compare crimson and kermes.

Noun

carmine (countable and uncountable, plural carmines)

1. 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, [1]

     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. A purplish-red colour, resembling that pigment.
   • 1854, Henry David Thoreau, Walden, New York: Thomas Y. Crowell & Co., 1910, Chapter XIV, p. 347, [2]

     He wore a great coat in midsummer, being affected with the trembling delirium, and his face was the color of carmine.

   • 1920, F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise, Chapter 5, [3]

     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.

   • 1987, Toni Morrison, Beloved, New York: Vintage, 2004, p. 33,

     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.'

Synonyms

• (pigment): crimson, cochineal, C.I. 75470, E120

Derived terms

• paracarmine

Translations

Adjective

carmine

1. Of the purplish red colour shade carmine.

Translations

See also

• (reds) red; blood red, brick red, burgundy, cardinal, carmine, carnation, cerise, cherry, cherry red, Chinese red, cinnabar, claret, crimson, damask, fire brick, fire engine red, flame, flamingo, fuchsia, garnet, geranium, gules, hot pink, incarnadine, Indian red, magenta, maroon, misty rose, nacarat, oxblood, pillar-box red, pink, Pompeian red, poppy, raspberry, red violet, rose, rouge, ruby, ruddy, salmon, sanguine, scarlet, shocking pink, stammel, strawberry, Turkey red, Venetian red, vermillion, vinaceous, vinous, violet red, wine ^{(Category: en:Reds)}

Anagrams

• Crimean, Mercian, ceriman, minecar

French

Verb

carmine

1. first-person singular present indicative of carminer
2. third-person singular present indicative of carminer
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of carminer
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of carminer
5. second-person singular imperative of carminer

Latin

Noun

carmine

1. ablative singular of carmen

References

• carmine in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)

Spanish

Verb

carmine

1. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of carminar.
2. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of carminar.
3. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of carminar.
4. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of carminar.

English

Etymology 1

From Old Norse karling, feminine of karl (“carl”).

Alternative forms

• carlin
• carling

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?k??l?n/

Noun

carline (plural carlines)

1. (chiefly Scotland) A woman; a hag or witch.
2. (nautical) A piece of squared timber fitted fore-and-aft between the deck beams of a wooden ship to provide support for the deck planking.
3. Alternative form of caroline (an old silver Italian coin).

Synonyms

• (hag, witch): woman, hag, witch

  See Thesaurus:old woman

Etymology 2

car +? line

Noun

carline (plural carlines)

1. A line of automobiles awaiting access to the same building or similar location.

Etymology 3

From French carline, from Medieval Latin carlina, probably from cardina, a diminutive of Latin carduus (“thistle”), with influence from Carolus Magnus due to an association with Charlemagne.

Noun

carline (plural carlines)

1. Carline thistle.

References

• Oxford English Dictionary, 1884–1928, and First Supplement, 1933.

Anagrams

• Licaner, clearin', en clair, lancier

Italian

Noun

carline f

1. plural of carlina

Anagrams

• crinale, lincerà, reclina

Scots

Etymology

From Old Norse karling, feminine of karl (“carl”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?k?rl?n/, [?karl?n], [?kjarl?n], [?k?rl?n]

Noun

carline (plural carlines)

1. woman, old woman, crone, hag