different between madder vs bluet

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?mæd?(?)/, [?mad?(?)]
• (US) IPA^(key): /?mæd??/, [?mæ???]
• Rhymes: -æd?(?)

Etymology 1

From Middle English mader, madere, mædere, from Old English mædere, mæddre, mædre, from Proto-Germanic *madar? (compare Swedish madra, Old Norse / Icelandic maðra), from Proto-Indo-European *mod?ro-, cognate with Proto-Slavic *modr? (“blue”), and compare Irish madar (“madder”), Latvian madara (“madder”).

Noun

madder (countable and uncountable, plural madders)

1. A herbaceous plant, Rubia tinctorum, native to Asia, cultivated for a red-purple dye (alizarin) obtained from the root.
2. The root of the plant, used as a medicine or a dye.
3. A dye made from the plant.
4. A deep reddish purple colour, like that of the dye.

Synonyms

• (Rubia tinctorum): common madder, dyer's madder

Derived terms

Translations

Adjective

madder (not comparable)

1. Of a deep reddish purple colour, like that of the dye.

Translations

See also

• bedstraw
• bluet
• genipap
• Appendix:Colors

Etymology 2

Inflected forms.

Adjective

madder

1. comparative form of mad: more mad

Etymology 3

From mead

Noun

madder (plural madders)

1. Obsolete form of mether.
   • c.1720 Jonathan Swift (translation from the Irish) "O'Rourke's Feast":

     Usequebaugh to our feast - In pails was brought up,

     A hundred at least, - And the madder our cup,

     O there is the sport! […]

References

• Tenison, Thomas Joseph (1860) "On Methers and Other Ancient Drinking Vessels" Journal of the Kilkenny and South-East of Ireland Archaeological Society Vol.3NS No.1 p.54

Anagrams

• MedDRA, dermad, dream'd, marded

Middle English

Adjective

madder

1. comparative degree of mad

English

Etymology

From French bleuet, diminutive of bleu (“blue”).

Noun

bluet (plural bluets)

1. Any of several different plants, from several genera, having bluish flowers.
   • 1913, Robert Frost, 'The Vantage Point':

     My breathing shakes the bluet like a breeze [...].

   • 1969, Vladimir Nabokov, Ada or Ardor, Penguin 2011, p. 232:

     They passed undulating fields of wheat speckled with the confetti of poppies and bluets.

   1. Centaurea, a plant genus in the family Asteraceae
   2. Several plant genera in the family Rubiaceae, notably Houstonia and Oldenlandiopsis.
2. Common name for several small damselfly species, including the genera Coenagrion and Enallagma.

Derived terms

• bluet-eyed
• creeping bluet

References

• bluet at OneLook Dictionary Search
• bluet on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• butle, lubet