different between ochre vs beige

English

Etymology 1

From Old French ocre and its source Latin ?chra, from Ancient Greek ???? (?khra, “pale yellow”), from ????? (?khrós, “pale, ocher”) (modern Greek ????? (ochrós)).

Alternative forms

• ocher (chiefly US)

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /???k?/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?o?k?/
• Rhymes: -??k?(r)

Noun

ochre (countable and uncountable, plural ochres)

1. An earth pigment containing silica, aluminum and ferric oxide
2. A somewhat dark yellowish orange colour

3. (molecular biology, colloquial) The stop codon sequence "UAA."
4. (slang) Money, especially gold.
   • 1854, Charles Dickens, Hard Times, Chapter 6,^[1]

     ‘What does he come here cheeking us for, then?’ cried Master Kidderminster, showing a very irascible temperament. ‘If you want to cheek us, pay your ochre at the doors and take it out.’

5. Any of various brown-coloured hesperiid butterflies of the genus Trapezites.

Derived terms

Descendants

• ? Welsh: ocr

Translations

Adjective

ochre (not comparable)

1. Having a yellow-orange colour.
2. (archaeology) Referring to cultures that covered their dead with ochre.

Translations

Verb

ochre (third-person singular simple present ochres, present participle ochring or ochreing, simple past and past participle ochred)

1. To cover or tint with ochre.
   • 1938, Xavier Herbert, Capricornia, New York: Appleton, 1943, Chapter 14, p. 229,^[2]

     […] his eye was caught by the sight of one child in a group of smaller children playing in the shallows some little distance down—a white child, so white by contrast with the others that at first he thought it must be ochred, which it could not be while playing in the water.

See also

• ochrous / ochreous
• kokowai
• ruddle
• Appendix:Colors

Etymology 2

From an unknown West African language, probably Igbo ??k??r??, but cf. Akan ?kr?mã and ?krakra (“broth”).

Noun

ochre (countable and uncountable, plural ochres)

1. (obsolete) Alternative form of okra.

References

• ochre at OneLook Dictionary Search
• ochre in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• “okra, n.”, in OED Online ?, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 2004

Anagrams

• -chore, Roche, chore, ocher, roche

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French (dialectal) beige, from Old French bege (“color of undyed wool or cotton”), from an Alpine language (compare Franco-Provençal bézho, Romansch besch (“dull grey”)), from Vulgar Latin *bysseus (“cottony grey”) (compare French bis, Catalan bis, Italian bìgio), from Late Latin byssus 'cotton', from Ancient Greek ?????? (bússos) 'cotton homespun', from Semitic (compare Hebrew/Aramaic ???? (b??)). Doublet of bice.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?be??/, /?be?d?/
• Rhymes: -e??, -e?d?

Noun

beige (countable and uncountable, plural beiges)

1. A slightly yellowish gray colour, as that of unbleached wool.

2. Debeige; a kind of woollen or mixed dress goods.

Translations

Adjective

beige (comparative beiger or more beige, superlative beigest or most beige)

1. Having a slightly yellowish gray colour, as that of unbleached wool.
2. (informal) Comfortably dull and unadventurous, in a way that suggests middle-class suburbia.

Synonyms

bland, indistinct, colorless, drab

Derived terms

• Beige Book

Translations

See also

• Appendix:Colors

Further reading

• beige on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch beige, from French beige.

Adjective

beige (attributive beige, comparative beiger, superlative beigeste)

1. beige

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from French beige, from Middle French beige, from Old French bege.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?b????/
• Hyphenation: bei?ge

Adjective

beige (comparative beiger, superlative meest beige or beigest)

1. beige

Inflection

Derived terms

• beigeachtig

Finnish

Alternative forms

• beesi, bees

Etymology

Borrowed from French beige.

Adjective

beige (comparative beigempi, superlative beigein)

1. beige

Declension

Noun

beige

1. beige (color)

Declension

French

Etymology

From Old French bege.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /b??/

Adjective

beige (plural beiges)

1. beige

Descendants

Further reading

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

German

Etymology 1

Borrowed from French beige.

Pronunciation

• Predicative form: IPA^(key): /be??/, /b???/
• Inflected forms: IPA^(key): /be???/, /b????/, /be???/, /b????/
• Rhymes: -e???, -e??, -???, -????, -e???, -????

Adjective

beige (not comparable)

1. beige

Usage notes

Beige is inflected like a regular adjective in pronunciation. However, since its basic form is written with a mute -e, the inflectional ending -e is not visible in writing: das beige [be???] Haus – the beige house.

The other inflectional endings are visible: in dem beigen Haus – in the beige house.

Declension

Related terms

• Beige

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ba????/
• Hyphenation: bei?ge

Verb

beige

1. first-person singular present indicative of beigen
2. first-person singular present subjunctive of beigen
3. third-person singular present subjunctive of beigen
4. second-person singular imperative of beigen

Further reading

• “beige” in Duden online

Luxembourgish

Etymology

Borrowed from French beige.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?be??/

Adjective

beige (masculine beigen, neuter beiget, comparative méi beige, superlative am beigesten)

1. beige

Declension

This adjective needs an inflection-table template.

Norwegian Bokmål

Alternative forms

• besj (alternative spelling)

Adjective

beige (singular and plural beige)

1. beige

References

• “beige” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Alternative forms

• besj (alternative spelling)

Adjective

beige (singular and plural beige, comparative beigare, indefinite superlative beigast, definite superlative beigaste)

1. beige

References

• “beige” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?bei?/, [?bei??]

• IPA^(key): /?beis/, [?bei?s]

Adjective

beige (invariable)

1. Alternative form of beis

Noun

beige m (uncountable)

1. Alternative form of beis

Further reading

• “beige” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

Swedish

Etymology

Attested from 1895. Borrowed from French beige. The slang definition is likely associated to the perceived blandness of the color.

Pronunciation

• (Sweden) IPA^(key): /be??/, /b???/
• Rhymes: -e??, -???

Adjective

beige

1. beige.

2. (slang) boring, uninteresting, negative.

Declension