different between yale vs viridian

English

Alternative forms

• eale

Etymology

Possibly derived from Hebrew ?????? (“mountain goat”). Possibly from Welsh iâl (“clearing, glade”). Compare Latin eale.

Noun

yale (plural yales)

1. A mythical beast in European mythology and heraldry, usually portrayed as an antelope- or goat-like four-legged creature with large horns that it can swivel in any direction.
2. A fertile upland.

Translations

Anagrams

• Ealy, Yael, aley, ayle, laye

Swahili

Alternative forms

• yaleyale

Adjective

yale

1. Ma class inflected form of -le.

English

Etymology

From Latin viridis, from the verb vireo (“to be verdant, to sprout”).

Noun

viridian (countable and uncountable, plural viridians)

1. A bluish-green pigment made from chromium sesquioxide.
   • 1890, Arthur Herbert Church, The Chemistry of Paints and Painting, London: Seeley & Co., 3rd edition, 1901, Chapter 16, p. 195,^[1]

     It would be difficult to exaggerate the value of this addition to the artist’s palette. The colour of viridian is a very deep bluish green of great purity and transparency. It furnishes, with aureolin on the one hand and with ultramarine on the other, an immense number of beautiful hues, adapted to represent the colours of vegetation and of water.

2. (color) A bluish-green color.

Adjective

viridian (comparative more viridian, superlative most viridian)

1. (colour) Of a bluish green colour.
   • 1928, Humbert Wolfe, “Spring” in This Blind Rose, London: Victor Gollancz, p. 47,^[2]

     spring sweeps the wood’s cathedral nave

     with the green fury of a wave,

     till oak and elm and beech and ash

     in one viridian comber crash,

     while at their feet red vetches shine,

     sharp, and cold, and coralline.

   • 1937, Robert Byron, The Road to Oxiana, “Bamian,”^[3]

     We walked out on to a balcony, looking down on the bright green fields, the grey-blue river lined with viridian poplars, and the red earth paths where the peasants were driving their animals […]

See also

• Appendix:Colors