different between lavender vs lavendery

English

Etymology

From Middle English lavendre, from Anglo-Norman lavendre (French: lavande), from Medieval Latin lavendula, possibly from Latin lividus (“bluish”), but influenced by lavare (“wash”) due to use of lavender in washing clothes.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?læv.?n.d?/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?læv.?n.d?/

Noun

lavender (countable and uncountable, plural lavenders)

1. Any of a group of European plants, genus, Lavandula, of the mint family.
2. A pale purple colour, like that of the lavender flower.

3. (film, historical, uncountable) A kind of film stock for creating positive prints from negatives as part of the process of duplicating the negatives.

Hyponyms

• (plant): common lavender

Derived terms

• lavender water
• sea lavender
• spike lavender

Related terms

• launder

Translations

See also

• lavender on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Lavandula on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Lavandula on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
• Appendix:Colors

Adjective

lavender (comparative more lavender, superlative most lavender)

1. Having a pale purple colour.
2. (politics) Pertaining to LGBT people and rights
3. (politics) Pertaining to lesbian feminism; opposing heterosexism. (Can we add an example for this sense?)

Translations

Verb

lavender (third-person singular simple present lavenders, present participle lavendering, simple past and past participle lavendered)

1. (transitive) To decorate or perfume with lavender.

Anagrams

• Vreeland

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old French lavandiere, from Medieval Latin lavand?rius.

Alternative forms

• lavendere, lavendre, lavendeer, lawender, lawnder, lawndere, launder

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lav?n?de?r/, /?lav?nd?r/, /lau?n?de?r/, /?lau?nd?r/

Noun

lavender (plural lavenderes)

1. A washer; one (especially a woman) who washes clothes.
2. (euphemistic) A woman employed in prostitution or having loose morals.

Related terms

• lavendrye

Descendants

• English: launder
• Scots: launer

References

• “lavender(e, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-12-24.

Etymology 2

From Old French lavendre.

Noun

lavender

1. Alternative form of lavendre

English

Etymology

lavender +? -y

Adjective

lavendery (comparative more lavendery, superlative most lavendery)

1. Resembling lavender.