different between dye vs cochineal

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /da?/
• Rhymes: -a?
• Homophones: die, Di, Dai

Etymology 1

From Middle English deie, from Old English d?ah, d?ag (“color, hue, dye”), from Proto-Germanic *daug? (“colour, shade”), from *daugan?, *dug- (“to conceal, be dark”), from Proto-Indo-European *d?ewh?- (“to smoke, raise dust, camouflage”).

The verb is from Middle English deien, from Old English d?agian, from the noun.

Alternative forms

• (obsolete) die

Noun

dye (countable and uncountable, plural dyes)

1. A colourant, especially one that has an affinity to the substrate to which it is applied.
2. Any hue, color, or blee.

Synonyms

• colourant
• tincture

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• ink

Verb

dye (third-person singular simple present dyes, present participle dyeing, simple past and past participle dyed)

1. (transitive) To colour with dye, or as if with dye.

Synonyms

• (to color): tint, stain, shade, streak

Derived terms

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Etymology 2

Noun

dye (plural dyce)

1. Alternative spelling of die (“singular of dice”)
   • 1748. David Hume, Enquiries concerning the human understanding and concerning the principles of moral. London: Oxford University Press, 1973. § 46:

     If a dye were marked with one figure or number of spots on four sides, and with another figure or number of spots on the two remaining sides, it would be more probable, that the former would turn up than the latter;

Translations

Anagrams

• Dey, dey, ye'd, yed

Afrikaans

Noun

dye

1. plural of dy

Haitian Creole

Etymology

From French dieu (“god”).

Noun

dye

1. god

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French cochenille, itself probably from Spanish cochinilla, or from Ancient Greek ???????? (kókkinos, “red tint”), from ?????? (kókkos), from Latin coccus (“berry or grain”) (term applied to Kermes quercus, a scale insect used in the production of red dye)

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?k?t???ni(?)l/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?k?t???ni?(?)l/
• Hyphenation: coch?i?neal

Noun

cochineal (countable and uncountable, plural cochineals)

1. (entomology) A species of insect (Dactylopius coccus).
2. A vivid red dye made from the bodies of cochineal insects.

   Synonym: E120

3. The vivid red color of this dye.
   • 2000, Mark Z. Danielewski, House of Leaves, pg. 26

Translations

Adjective

cochineal (not comparable)

1. Possessing a vivid red color, as produced from dying with cochineal.
   • 1997, The Ethiopian Borderlands. Richard Pankhurst. 1997.

     The principal imports arriving by sea, then as previously, were textiles, among them coarse cotton cloth, known as Surat, the Indian port from which they were shipped, as well as blue cotton cloth and cochineal cloth called kemis

   • 1927, Breeze Hill News

     Batavus, of somewhat the same shade, was slightly taller, and perhaps with a little more cochineal color.

Further reading

• cochineal on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Dactylopius coccus on Wikispecies.Wikispecies

References

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