different between ochre vs terracotta

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

Alternative forms

• terra cotta

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian terra (“earth”) + cotta (“baked”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?t????k?t?/

Noun

terracotta (usually uncountable, plural terracottas)

1. A hard red-brown unglazed earthenware, used for pottery and building construction.
2. A reddish brown colour, like that of terra cotta.

Related terms

Translations

Adjective

terracotta (not comparable)

1. Of the colour of terracotta.
   • 1892 June 18, F. W. B., Why Paint a Greenhouse White?, in The Garden, volume 41, page 569:

     A dull red or terracotta brown is far better, and sets off the foliage of Palms or Ferns to greater advantage.

Translations

See also

• haniwa
• Xi'an (the Terra Cotta Warriors)
• Appendix:Colors

Italian

Etymology

terra + cotta.

Noun

terracotta f (plural terrecotte)

1. terracotta

Adjective

terracotta (invariable)

1. terracotta (colour)

Anagrams

• tetrarcato