different between coloration vs pigment

English

Alternative forms

• colorification (dated)
• colouration (British)

Etymology

From French coloration, from Latin col?r?ti?.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -e???n

Noun

coloration (countable and uncountable, plural colorations)

1. The act or art of coloring.
2. The quality of being colored.
3. (music) A notational device for indicating hemiola through either use of red ink (in mensural black notation) or black noteheads (in mensural white notation).
4. (music) Ornamental division (also called passaggi, glosas, diminutions. etc.) employing rapid black notes.
5. Political tendency.
   • 1968, Bernard Cosman, ?Robert Jack Huckshorn, Republican Politics (page 88)

     Numerous studies of family imprint upon offspring party attachment have shown that, when the father and mother agree politically, the children are likely to adopt the political coloration of their parents.

   • 2014, Kevin P. Phillips, The Emerging Republican Majority: Updated Edition (page 175)

     The party was not organized as an Irish political vehicle, but from the first it had a decidedly Gaelic coloration.

Translations

See also

• diatonic
• chromatic
• coloratura

French

Pronunciation

Noun

coloration f (plural colorations)

1. color; coloring; coloration
   • 1827, Elisabeth Celnart, Art de la toilette

     On voit que je ne suis point au nombre des partisans de la coloration des cheveux.

     You can see that I'm not one of those people who's partial to a coloring of the hair

Further reading

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

English

Etymology

From Middle English pigment, from Latin pigmentum (“pigment”), itself from ping? (“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.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?p??.m?nt/

Noun

pigment (plural pigments)

1. (biology) Any color in plant or animal cells

2. A dry colorant, usually an insoluble powder

3. (obsolete) Wine flavoured with spices and honey.

Derived terms

• pigmentary

Related terms

• pimiento

Translations

Verb

pigment (third-person singular simple present pigments, present participle pigmenting, simple past and past participle pigmented)

1. (transitive) To add color or pigment to something.

Derived terms

• pigmentation

Translations

Anagrams

• empting, temping

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin pigmentum.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Valencian) IPA^(key): /pi??ment/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /pi??men/

Noun

pigment m (plural pigments)

1. pigment

Derived terms

• pigmentar

Further reading

• “pigment” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “pigment” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “pigment” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “pigment” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin pigmentum (“pigment”), itself from ping? (“I paint”) + -mentum.

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: pig?ment
• Rhymes: -?nt

Noun

pigment n (plural pigmenten, diminutive pigmentje n)

1. pigment, coloring substance

Derived terms

• pigmentatie
• pigmenteren
• pigmentering
• pigmentpapier n
• pigmentvreter m

Related terms

• kleurstof

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin pigmentum (“pigment”), itself from ping? (“I paint”) + -mentum. Doublet of piment, a borrowing from Spanish.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pi?.m??/

Noun

pigment m (plural pigments)

1. pigment, coloring substance

Derived terms

• pigmentaire
• pigmentation
• pigmenter

Further reading

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

Middle English

Alternative forms

• pygment

Etymology

From Latin pigmentum.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?pi?m?nt/

Noun

pigment (plural pigmentes)

1. A spice or a blend of them.
2. A red pigment.

Descendants

• English: pigment

References

• “pigment, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin pigmentum

Noun

pigment n (definite singular pigmentet, indefinite plural pigment or pigmenter, definite plural pigmenta or pigmentene)

1. a pigment

References

• “pigment” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin pigmentum

Noun

pigment n (definite singular pigmentet, indefinite plural pigment, definite plural pigmenta)

1. a pigment

References

• “pigment” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Polish

Etymology

From Latin pigmentum.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?p?i?.m?nt/

Noun

pigment m inan

1. (biology) pigment (any color in plant or animal cells)
2. pigment (dry colorant)

Declension

Derived terms

• (adjectives) pigmentowy, pigmentowany

Related terms

• (noun) pigmentacja
• (adjective) pigmentacyjny

Further reading

• pigment in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• pigment in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French pigment, Latin pigmentum.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pi??ment/

Noun

pigment n (plural pigmen?i)

1. pigment

Declension

Related terms

• pigmenta
• pigmenta?ie

Further reading

• pigment in DEX online - Dic?ionare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From German Pigment, from Latin pigmentum.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p??ment/
• Hyphenation: pi?gment

Noun

pìgment m (Cyrillic spelling ???????)

1. pigment

Declension

References

• “pigment” in Hrvatski jezi?ni portal