different between grey vs taupe

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

Borrowed from French taupe, from Latin talpa (“mole”). Doublet of talpa.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /t??p/
• (US) IPA^(key): /to?p/

Noun

taupe (countable and uncountable, plural taupes)

1. A dark brownish-grey colour, the colour of moleskin.

Translations

Adjective

taupe (comparative more taupe, superlative most taupe)

1. Of a dark brownish-grey colour.
   • 1915, Ben Hecht, "Life", The Little Review, November,

     At five o'clock the patch of daylight above the red-lighted exit door turned taupe, as though a gray curtain had been flung across it; […]

   • 1952, Wallace Earle Stegner, "Pop Goes the Alley Cat", Harper's Magazine, February, pp. 42-52,

     In the front room, on an old taupe overstuffed sofa, the head of the house lay in a blanket bathrobe, […]

Translations

See also

• Appendix:Colors

Anagrams

• ate up, eat up

French

Etymology

From Old French taupe, inherited from Latin talpa.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /top/

Noun

taupe f (plural taupes)

1. mole (burrowing mammal)
2. (figuratively) mole (undercover agent)
3. tunneler
4. (education) higher mathematics class

Derived terms

Adjective

taupe (plural taupes)

1. taupe

Further reading

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

Norman

Etymology

From Old French taupe, from Latin talpa.

Pronunciation

Noun

taupe f (plural taupes)

1. (Jersey) mole (mammal)

Synonyms

• taupîn

Old French

Etymology

From Latin talpa.

Noun

taupe f (oblique plural taupes, nominative singular taupe, nominative plural taupes)

1. mole (mammal)

Descendants

• French: taupe
• Norman: taupe (Jersey)

Tocharian B

Noun

taupe ?

1. mine (place from which ore is extracted)