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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)

1. (biology) Any color in plant or animal cells

2. A dry colorant, usually an insoluble powder

3. (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)

1. (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)

1. 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)

1. 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)

1. 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)

1. A spice or a blend of them.
2. 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)

1. 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)

1. a pigment

References

• “pigment” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Polish

Etymology

From Latin pigmentum.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?p?i?.m?nt/

Noun

pigment m inan

1. (biology) pigment (any color in plant or animal cells)
2. 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)

1. 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 ???????)

1. pigment

Declension

References

• “pigment” in Hrvatski jezi?ni portal

English

Alternative forms

• zaffer
• zaffree
• zaffar
• zaffir

Etymology

From Italian zaffera, from Latin sapphirus (“sapphire”). Doublet of sapphire.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?zæf?(?)/
• Rhymes: -æf?(?)

Noun

zaffre (countable and uncountable, plural zaffres)

1. A blue pigment obtained by roasting cobalt ore.
2. A cobalt blue colour, like that of the pigment.

Translations

See also

• (blues) blue; Alice blue, aqua, aquamarine, azure, baby blue, beryl, bice, bice blue, blue green, blue violet, blueberry, cadet blue, Cambridge blue, cerulean, cobalt blue, Copenhagen blue, cornflower, cornflower blue, cyan, dark blue, Dodger blue, duck-egg blue, eggshell blue, electric-blue, gentian blue, ice blue, lapis lazuli, light blue, lovat, mazarine, midnight blue, navy, Nile blue, Oxford blue, peacock blue, petrol blue, powder blue, Prussian blue, robin's-egg blue, royal blue, sapphire, saxe blue, slate blue, sky blue, teal, turquoise, ultramarine, Wedgwood blue, zaffre ^{(Category: en:Blues)}

Anagrams

• affzer, zaffer