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pigment
English
Etymology
From Middle English pigment, from Latin pigmentum (“pigment”), itself from ping? (“I paint”) + -mentum; variants of this word may have been known in Old English (e.g. 12th century pyhmentum). Doublet of pimiento, pimento, and piment.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?p??.m?nt/
Noun
pigment (plural pigments)
- (biology) Any color in plant or animal cells
- A dry colorant, usually an insoluble powder
- (obsolete) Wine flavoured with spices and honey.
Derived terms
- pigmentary
Related terms
- pimiento
Translations
Verb
pigment (third-person singular simple present pigments, present participle pigmenting, simple past and past participle pigmented)
- (transitive) To add color or pigment to something.
Derived terms
- pigmentation
Translations
Anagrams
- empting, temping
Catalan
Etymology
From Latin pigmentum.
Pronunciation
- (Balearic, Valencian) IPA(key): /pi??ment/
- (Central) IPA(key): /pi??men/
Noun
pigment m (plural pigments)
- pigment
Derived terms
- pigmentar
Further reading
- “pigment” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “pigment” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
- “pigment” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “pigment” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin pigmentum (“pigment”), itself from ping? (“I paint”) + -mentum.
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: pig?ment
- Rhymes: -?nt
Noun
pigment n (plural pigmenten, diminutive pigmentje n)
- pigment, coloring substance
Derived terms
- pigmentatie
- pigmenteren
- pigmentering
- pigmentpapier n
- pigmentvreter m
Related terms
- kleurstof
French
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin pigmentum (“pigment”), itself from ping? (“I paint”) + -mentum. Doublet of piment, a borrowing from Spanish.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pi?.m??/
Noun
pigment m (plural pigments)
- pigment, coloring substance
Derived terms
- pigmentaire
- pigmentation
- pigmenter
Further reading
- “pigment” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Middle English
Alternative forms
- pygment
Etymology
From Latin pigmentum.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?pi?m?nt/
Noun
pigment (plural pigmentes)
- A spice or a blend of them.
- A red pigment.
Descendants
- English: pigment
References
- “pigment, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin pigmentum
Noun
pigment n (definite singular pigmentet, indefinite plural pigment or pigmenter, definite plural pigmenta or pigmentene)
- a pigment
References
- “pigment” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin pigmentum
Noun
pigment n (definite singular pigmentet, indefinite plural pigment, definite plural pigmenta)
- a pigment
References
- “pigment” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Polish
Etymology
From Latin pigmentum.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?p?i?.m?nt/
Noun
pigment m inan
- (biology) pigment (any color in plant or animal cells)
- pigment (dry colorant)
Declension
Derived terms
- (adjectives) pigmentowy, pigmentowany
Related terms
- (noun) pigmentacja
- (adjective) pigmentacyjny
Further reading
- pigment in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
- pigment in Polish dictionaries at PWN
Romanian
Etymology
Borrowed from French pigment, Latin pigmentum.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pi??ment/
Noun
pigment n (plural pigmen?i)
- pigment
Declension
Related terms
- pigmenta
- pigmenta?ie
Further reading
- pigment in DEX online - Dic?ionare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)
Serbo-Croatian
Etymology
From German Pigment, from Latin pigmentum.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /p??ment/
- Hyphenation: pi?gment
Noun
pìgment m (Cyrillic spelling ???????)
- pigment
Declension
References
- “pigment” in Hrvatski jezi?ni portal
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chalk
English
Alternative forms
- chaulk (dated)
Etymology
From Middle English chalk, chalke, from Old English cealc, borrowed from Latin calx (“limestone”), again borrowed from Ancient Greek ????? (khálix, “pebble”). Doublet of calx and cauk.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /t????k/
- (General American) enPR: chôk, IPA(key): /t???k/
- (cot–caught merger, Inland Northern American) IPA(key): /t???k/
- Homophone: chock
- Rhymes: -??k
Noun
chalk (countable and uncountable, plural chalks)
- (uncountable) A soft, white, powdery limestone.
- (countable) A piece of chalk, or nowadays processed compressed gypsum, that is used for drawing and for writing on a blackboard.
- Tailor's chalk.
- (uncountable, climbing) A white powdery substance used to prevent hands slipping from holds when climbing, sometimes but not always limestone-chalk.
- (US, military, countable) A platoon-sized group of airborne soldiers.
- (US, sports, chiefly basketball, horseracing) The favorite in a sporting event.
- (US, sports, chiefly basketball) The prediction that there will be no upsets, and the favored competitor will win.
Descendants
- ? Hindi: ??? (c?k)
- ? Japanese: ??? (chako), ???? (ch?ku)
- ? Nepali: ?? (cak)
- ? Swahili: chaki
- ? Swazi: íshóki
- ? Thai: ????? (ch??k)
- ? Tsonga: choko
- ? Tulu: ???? (c?k)
Translations
Verb
chalk (third-person singular simple present chalks, present participle chalking, simple past and past participle chalked)
- To apply chalk to anything, such as the tip of a billiard cue.
- To record something, as on a blackboard, using chalk.
- To use powdered chalk to mark the lines on a playing field.
- (figuratively) To record a score or event, as if on a chalkboard.
- To manure (land) with chalk.
- To make white, as if with chalk; to make pale; to bleach.
- Let a bleak paleness chalk the door.
Derived terms
Related terms
- calcium
- calx
- chalkboard
See also
- chalk on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Chalk (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Chalk (military) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Middle English
Alternative forms
- chalke, schalk, calke, schalke
Etymology
From Old English cealc, borrowed from Latin calx, in turn borrowed from Ancient Greek ????? (khálix).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /t?alk/
- (rare) IPA(key): /kalk/
- Rhymes: -alk
Noun
chalk (uncountable)
- chalk
Descendants
- English: chalk (see there for further descendants); cauk, cawk
- Scots: cauk, cawk
References
- “chalk, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-09-14.
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