different between mauve vs statice

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French mauve, from Latin malva (“mallow”), which has a purple colour. Doublet of mallow. First coined in 1856 by the chemist William Henry Perkin, when he accidentally created the first aniline dye.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /m??v/
• (US) IPA^(key): /m??v/, /mo?v/
• Rhymes: -??v

Noun

mauve (plural mauves)

1. (historical) A bright purple synthetic dye.
2. The colour of this dye; a pale purple or violet colour.

Quotations

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:mauve.

Translations

Adjective

mauve (comparative mauver or more mauve, superlative mauvest or most mauve)

1. Having a pale purple colour.

Quotations

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:mauve.

Translations

See also

• Appendix:Colors

Anagrams

• aevum, ævum

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mov/

Etymology 1

From Old French, from Latin malva (“mallow”), which has a purple colour; ultimately of Semitic origin.

Noun

mauve f (plural mauves)

1. mallow

Noun

mauve m (plural mauves)

1. mauve

Adjective

mauve (plural mauves)

1. mauve

Descendants

• ? English: mauve
• ? Romanian: mov

Etymology 2

From Middle French mauve, from Old French mave (“mew”), from Old English m?w (“mew, seagull”), from Proto-Germanic *maihwaz, *maiwaz (“seagull”). Related to mouette. Cognate with German Möwe (“seagull”), Dutch meeuw (“seagull”), Danish måge (“seagull”), Icelandic mávur (“seagull”), Polish mewa (“seagull”) (from Germanic). More at mew.

Noun

mauve f (plural mauves)

1. mew, gull, seagull

Synonyms

• mouette
• goéland

Related terms

• mauviette
• mauvis

Further reading

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

Norman

Etymology 1

From Old French mave (“mew”), from Old English m?w (“mew, seagull”) or Old Norse már, mávar (compare Icelandic mávur), from Proto-Germanic *maihwaz, *maiwaz (“seagull”).

Noun

mauve f (plural mauves)

1. (Jersey) seagull, herring gull

Alternative forms

• mâove (continental Normandy)
• maoue (Guernsey)

Etymology 2

From Old French, from Latin malva.

Noun

mauve f (plural mauves)

1. (Jersey) tree mallow (Malva arborea, syn. Lavatera arborea}}

Synonyms

• mauve dé gardîn
• grand' mauve
• maûvi

English

Wikispecies

Etymology

From Latin static?, from Ancient Greek ???????? (statikós, “standing still”).

Noun

statice (plural statices)

1. Plants of the genus Limonium having spikes of white or mauve flowers.

References

• “statice, n.”, in OED Online ?, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, December 2012

Anagrams

• catties, etacist