different between colour vs nigella

English

Alternative forms

• color (American spelling)

Pronunciation

Homophone: culler

Noun

colour (countable and uncountable, plural colours) (British spelling, Canadian spelling)

1. Australia, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand, South Africa, and Britain standard spelling of color.

Adjective

colour (not comparable)

1. Australia, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand, South Africa, and Britain standard spelling of color.

Related terms

• colourimeter

Verb

colour (third-person singular simple present colours, present participle colouring, simple past and past participle coloured)

1. Australia, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand, South Africa, and Britain standard spelling of color.

Derived terms

Anagrams

• courol, ur-cool

Middle English

Alternative forms

• colur, color, culur, coler, coloure, kolour

Etymology

From Anglo-Norman colur, from Latin color.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ku?lu?r/, /?kulur/

Noun

colour (plural colours or coloures)

1. colour, hue, shade
2. pigment, dye (substance for colouring)
3. method (literary or rhetorical)
4. justification, explanation (often feigned)

Descendants

• English: color, colour
• Scots: colour

References

• “c?l?ur, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-03-30.

See also

Old French

Noun

colour f (oblique plural colours, nominative singular colour, nominative plural colours)

1. (Anglo-Norman) Alternative form of color

English

Etymology

From the genus name. Doublet of nielle.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /na??d???l?/
• Rhymes: -?l?

Noun

nigella (plural nigellas)

1. Any plant of the genus Nigella of about twelve species of annual flowering plants, the blooms of which are generally blue in colour but also found in shades of pink, white and pale purple.
2. The seeds of the plant Nigella sativa, used as a culinary spice.

Synonyms

• (flower): love-in-a-mist
• (spice): black onion seed, onion seed, kalonji

Derived terms

• nigelline
• nigellone

Translations

Further reading

• nigella on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• nigella on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• nigella on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

Anagrams

• Gallien, Langlie, gallein, galline, liangle

Italian

Etymology

From Scientific Latin, from Late Latin nigella, from the feminine of Latin nigellus. Cf. also niello.

Noun

nigella f (plural nigelle)

1. nigella