different between chestnut vs carmine

English

Etymology

Formerly chesten nut, from Middle English chesten, Middle English chesteyne, chasteine, from Old English ?isten and reinforced by Old French chastaigne, both from Latin cast?nea, from Ancient Greek ????????? (kastáneia).

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /?t??s.n?t/, /?t??st.n?t/

Noun

chestnut (countable and uncountable, plural chestnuts)

1. A tree or shrub of the genus Castanea.
2. A nut of this tree or shrub.
3. (uncountable) A dark, reddish-brown colour, as seen on the fruit of the chestnut tree.

4. A reddish-brown horse.
5. (uncountable) The wood of a chestnut tree.
6. An old joke; a worn-out meme, phrase, ploy, etc. so often repeated as to have grown tiresome or ineffective (often in the phrase "old chestnut").
7. A round or oval horny plate found on the inner side of the leg of a horse or other animal, similar to a birthmark on a human.

   Synonym: night eye

8. (Britain) The horse-chestnut.

Synonyms

• (tree): chestnut tree

Derived terms

Descendants

• ? Gujarati: ??????? (ces?ana?)

Translations

Adjective

chestnut (not comparable)

1. Of a deep reddish-brown colour, like that of a chestnut.

Translations

Related terms

• castanet

See also

• chestnut on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Chesnutt

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.