different between madder vs madderwort
madder
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)
- A herbaceous plant, Rubia tinctorum, native to Asia, cultivated for a red-purple dye (alizarin) obtained from the root.
- The root of the plant, used as a medicine or a dye.
- A dye made from the plant.
- 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)
- 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
- comparative form of mad: more mad
Etymology 3
From mead
Noun
madder (plural madders)
- 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! […]
- c.1720 Jonathan Swift (translation from the Irish) "O'Rourke's Feast":
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
- comparative degree of mad
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madderwort
English
Etymology
madder +? wort
Noun
madderwort (plural madderworts)
- Rubia tinctorum (common madder)
- Any plant of the same family (Rubiaceae) as the madder. [from c. 1750 to c. 1950]
References
- madderwort at OneLook Dictionary Search
- madderwort on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
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