different between grey vs reseda

English

Alternative forms

• gray (often used in the US)

Etymology

From Middle English grey, from Old English gr??, from Proto-Germanic *gr?waz (compare Dutch grauw, German grau, Old Norse grár), from Proto-Indo-European *??reh?- (“to green, to grow”) (compare Latin r?vus (“grey”), Old Church Slavonic ???? (z?rj?, “to see, to glance”), Russian ????? (zret?, “to watch, to look at”) (archaic), Lithuanian žeriù (“to shine”)).

Adjective

grey (comparative greyer or more grey, superlative greyest or most grey)

1. Britain and Commonwealth of Nations standard spelling of gray.

   • These grey and dun colors may be also produced by mixing whites and blacks.

2. (South Africa, slang) Synonym of coloured (pertaining to the mixed race of black and white).

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

grey (third-person singular simple present greys, present participle greying, simple past and past participle greyed)

1. Britain and Commonwealth of Nations standard spelling of gray.
   • 1941, Emily Carr, Klee Wyck, Chapter 18, ^[1]

     Now only a few hand-hewn cedar planks and roof beams remained, moss-grown and sagging—a few totem poles, greyed and split.

Noun

grey (plural greys)

1. Britain and Commonwealth of Nations standard spelling of gray.
   • 1833, Sporting Magazine (volume 6, page 400)

     Pioneer seemed now to have the game in his own hands; but the Captain, by taking two desperate leaps, cut off a corner, by which he regained the ground he had lost by the fall, and was up with the grey the remainder of the chase.

Translations

See also

• greys

References

Anagrams

• -ergy, gyre

Icelandic

Etymology

From Old Norse grey, from Proto-Germanic *grawj?, cognate with Faroese groyggj.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /krei?/
• Rhymes: -ei?

Noun

grey n (genitive singular greys, nominative plural grey)

1. (archaic) bitch (female dog)
2. wretch, pitiful person

3. indefinite accusative singular of grey
4. indefinite nominative plural of grey
5. indefinite accusative plural of grey

Declension

Middle English

Alternative forms

• grei, gray, grai, greye, gry, græi, gro, gra, gre?e, grei?e

Etymology

From Old English gr??, from Proto-Germanic *gr?waz.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?r?i?/
• Rhymes: -?i?

Adjective

grey (plural and weak singular greye)

1. grey, dull, drab (in color)
2. glinting, glistening

Descendants

• English: gray, grey
• Scots: gray
• Yola: gry

References

• “grei, adj. & n..”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-03-30.

Noun

grey

1. grey (colour)
2. Fur of the grey squirrel
3. grey clothes
4. grey textiles
5. An elderly man
6. A badger

Descendants

• English: gray, grey
• Scots: gray
• Yola: gry

References

• “grei, adj. & n..”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-03-30.
• “grei, n.(2).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-03-30.
• “grei, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-03-30.

See also

Portuguese

Noun

grey m (plural greys)

1. Alternative form of gray (race of extraterrestrials)

Spanish

Etymology

From Latin grege, singular ablative of grex, from Proto-Indo-European *h?ger- (“to assemble, gather together”). Doublet of grupo.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???ei/, [???ei?]

Noun

grey f (plural greyes)

1. (obsolete, poetic) flock, herd

   Synonyms: rebaño, rehala

2. (religion) flock (people served by a pastor, priest, etc., also all believers in a church or religion)

   Synonyms: rebaño, feligresía, congregación, iglesia

Derived terms

• gregario
• agregar

Related terms

• oveja
• cabra

See also

• (animals): ganado, hato, parvada, manada, jauría, cardumen, enjambre

English

Etymology

From French réséda, from Latin res?da, said by Pliny the Elder (23–79 C.E.) to be from res?d?re (“to soothe”), from re- (“prefix meaning ‘again’”) + s?dare (from s?d? (“to assuage, calm”)), an allusion to the healing properties of the plant.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /???si?d?/, /???s?d?/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /???sid?/
• Hyphenation: re?se?da

Noun

reseda (plural resedas)

1. (botany) Any of various plants of the genus Reseda having small, pale grayish green flowers, such as dyer's rocket (Reseda luteola) and mignonette (Reseda odorata).
2. (botany, horticulture, specifically) Mignonette (Reseda odorata).
3. A pale greyish-green colour like the flowers of a reseda plant; mignonette.

Hyponyms

• dyer's rocket
• mignonette (one sense)
• weld

Related terms

• Reseda
• Resedaceae
• resedaceous

Translations

See also

• Appendix:Colors

Adjective

reseda (not comparable)

1. Having a pale greyish-green colour like the flowers of a reseda plant; mignonette.

Translations

References

Further reading

• reseda green on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• reseda (plant) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• reseda (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Red Sea, Sereda, adrees, erased, seared

Finnish

Noun

reseda

1. reseda (plant of the genus Reseda)
2. (in the plural) the genus Reseda.

Declension

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /re?z?.da/
• Rhymes: -?da

Noun

reseda

1. reseda

Latin

Etymology

According to Pliny, from res?d? (“I soothe”).

Noun

res?da f (genitive res?dae); first declension

1. mignonette

Declension

First-declension noun.

References

• reseda in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• reseda in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette