different between carnation vs incarnadine

English

Etymology

From Middle French carnation (“person's color or complexion”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /k???ne?.??n/
• (US) IPA^(key): /k???ne?.??n/
• Rhymes: -e???n

Noun

carnation (countable and uncountable, plural carnations)

1. (botany) A type of Eurasian plant widely cultivated for its flowers.
   1. originally, Dianthus caryophyllus
   2. other members of genus Dianthus and hybrids
2. The type of flower they bear, originally flesh-coloured, but since hybridizing found in a variety of colours.
3. A rosy pink colour
4. (archaic) The pinkish colors used in art to render human face and flesh

5. A scarlet colour.

Synonyms

• (plant, flower): clove pink (also called gillyflower), (ancestor of the carnation) Dianthus caryophyllus
• (plant, flower): cottage pink, Dianthus plumarius

Related terms

• carnal
• carnassial
• carnify
• carnival
• carnivore
• carnosity
• incarnadine
• incarnate

Translations

Adjective

carnation (not comparable)

1. Of a rosy pink or red colour.
2. (archaic) Of a human flesh color.

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)}
• gypsophila

Anagrams

• Cantorian, Carnotian

French

Etymology

From Middle French, possibly from Italian carnagione (“flesh color”), either way from Late Latin carn?ti? (“fleshiness”) (from Latin car? (“flesh”)), or from a corruption of coronation (from Latin cor?n?re (“to crown”), from cor?na (“crown”)), because of the flower's use in chaplets or from the toothed crown-like look of the petals.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ka?.na.sj??/

Noun

carnation f (countable and uncountable, plural carnations)

1. (uncountable) a fleshy pinkish color (not the color of a carnation flower)
2. (countable) skin tone

   Synonym: teint

Further reading

• “carnation” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• connaitra, connaîtra

English

Etymology

The adjective is derived from French incarnadin, incarnadine, from Italian incarnadino, a variant of incarnatino (“carnation; flesh colour”), from incarnato (“embodied, incarnate”) + -ino (suffix forming adjectives denoting composition, colour, or other qualities). Incarnato is derived from Ecclesiastical Latin and Late Latin incarn?tus (“having been made incarnate”), the perfect passive participle of incarn? (“to become or make incarnate; to make into flesh”), from in- (suffix meaning ‘in, inside, within’) + Latin car? (“flesh, meat; body”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- (“to cut off”)) + -? (suffix forming regular first-conjugation verbs).

The noun and verb are derived from the adjective.

Adjective senses 2 and 3 (“of the blood-red colour of raw flesh; (figurative) bloostained, bloody”) and noun sense 2 (“blood-red colour of raw flesh”) are due to William Shakespeare’s use of the word as a verb in Macbeth (c. 1606): see the quotation below.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?n?k??n?di?n/, /-da?n/, /-d?n/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?n?k??n??di?n/
• Hyphenation: in?car?nad?ine

Adjective

incarnadine (comparative more incarnadine, superlative most incarnadine) (archaic, literary)

1. (originally) Of the pale pink or pale red colour of flesh; carnation.
2. Of the blood-red colour of raw flesh; crimson.
3. (figuratively) Bloodstained, bloody.
4. (generally) Of a red colour.

Translations

Noun

incarnadine (plural incarnadines) (archaic, literary)

1. (originally) The pale pink or pale red colour of flesh; carnation.
2. The blood-red colour of raw flesh; crimson.
3. (generally) A red colour.

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)}
• Appendix:Colors

Verb

incarnadine (third-person singular simple present incarnadines, present participle incarnadining, simple past and past participle incarnadined) (archaic, literary)

1. (transitive, originally) To make flesh-coloured.
2. (transitive, also figuratively) To make red, especially blood-coloured or crimson; to redden.

Derived terms

• incarnadined (adjective)

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