different between russet vs sard

English

Etymology

From Middle English russet, from Anglo-Norman russet, rossat, roset, and Middle French rosset, rousset (“reddish, reddish-brown; a rough wool cloth”), from Middle French rous, rus (“to rouse”) + -et (“suffix indicating diminution”); compare Late Latin rossetum, russetum, russeta (“rough wool cloth”), Latin russus (“red”) (from Proto-Indo-European *h?rewd?- (“red”)), Occitan rosseta (“rough wool cloth”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) enPR: r?s??t, IPA^(key): /???s?t/
• Rhymes: -?s?t
• Hyphenation: rus?set

Noun

russet (countable and uncountable, plural russets)

1. A reddish-brown color.
2. A coarse, reddish-brown, homespun fabric; clothes made with such fabric.
3. A variety of apple with rough, russet-colored skin.

   Synonym: russeting

   Coordinate term: reinette
4. A variety of potato with rough, dark gray-brown skin.

Translations

Adjective

russet (comparative more russet, superlative most russet)

1. Having a reddish-brown color.
2. (archaic) Gray or ash-colored.
3. Rustic, homespun, coarse, plain.
4. The condition of leather when its treatment is complete, but it is not yet colored (stained) and polished.
5. (botany) Having a rough skin that is reddish-brown or greyish; russeted.

Translations

Verb

russet (third-person singular simple present russets, present participle russeting or russetting, simple past and past participle russeted or russetted)

1. (transitive, intransitive, of apples, pears, etc.) To develop reddish-brown spots; to cause russeting.

Derived terms

See also

• Appendix:Colors

Further reading

• russet (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Suters, estrus, struse, surest, tusser

German

Pronunciation

Verb

russet

1. Switzerland and Liechtenstein standard spelling of rußet.

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /s??(?)d/
• Rhymes: -??(?)d

Etymology 1

From Middle English sarde, borrowed from Old French sarde, from Latin sarda, sardius. Doublet of sardius.

Noun

sard (countable and uncountable, plural sards)

1. (mineralogy) A variety of carnelian, of a rich reddish yellow or brownish red color.
2. Any of various brownish red earth pigments formerly used in cosmetics and painting; has more yellow, hardly any blue (see puce), is lighter than russet and darker than traditional carnelian.

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English serden, from Old English seorðan, borrowed from Old Norse serða, from Proto-Germanic *serþan?, from Proto-Indo-European *sert- (“to hit”).

Verb

sard (third-person singular simple present sards, present participle sarding, simple past and past participle sarded)

1. (obsolete) To have sexual intercourse with (a woman).

   Synonyms: fuck, jape, swive; see also Thesaurus:copulate with

Further reading

• John Stephen Farmer, William Ernest Henley, Slang and Its Analogues Past and Present (1903), page 101

Anagrams

• ADRs, ARDS, RDS.A, SADR, Sadr, ards, dars, rads

Catalan

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Valencian) IPA^(key): /?sa?t/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /?sart/

Etymology 1

From Latin sardus.

Adjective

sard (feminine sarda, masculine plural sards, feminine plural sardes)

1. Sardinian (pertaining to Sardinia, to the Sardinian people, or to the Sardinian language)

Noun

sard m (plural sards, feminine sarda)

1. Sardinian (an inhabitant of Sardinia)

sard m (uncountable)

1. Sardinian (a Romance language indigenous to Sardinia)

Related terms

• Sardenya (“Sardinia”)

Etymology 2

By confusion with sard (“Sardinian”), from sarg, from Latin sargus.

Noun

sard m (plural sards)

1. white seabream (a fish of species Diplodus sargus)

   Synonym: sarg

Further reading

• “sard” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “sard” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “sard” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “sard” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Central Kurdish

Etymology

Related to Persian ???? (sard) from Middle Persian slt'.

Adjective

sard (sard)

1. cold