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yellow
English
Alternative forms
- yeallow (obsolete), yeller (dialect)
Etymology
From Middle English yelwe, yelou, from Old English ?eolwe, oblique form of of Old English ?eolu, from Proto-West Germanic *gelu, from Proto-Germanic *gelwaz, from Proto-Indo-European *??elh?wos, from *??elh?- (“gleam, yellow”)
Compare Welsh gwelw (“pale”), Latin helvus (“dull yellow”)), Irish geal (“white, bright”), Lithuanian žalias (“green”), Ancient Greek ?????? (khl?rós, “light green”), Persian ???? (zard, “yellow”), Sanskrit ??? (hari, “greenish-yellow”)). Cognate with German gelb (“yellow”), Dutch geel (“yellow”).
The verb is from Old English ?eolwian, from the adjective.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?j?l.??/
- (General American) enPR: y?l??, IPA(key): /?j?l.o?/
- (dialect) IPA(key): /?j?l.?/
- (dated, Southern US folk speech) IPA(key): /j?l?/, /?jæl?/, /?j?l?/, /?j?l?/, /?j?l?/
- Rhymes: -?l??
Adjective
yellow (comparative yellower or more yellow, superlative yellowest or most yellow)
- Having yellow as its color.
- 1667, John Milton, Paradise Lost (1667) - Book X, line 434
- A sweaty reaper from his tillage brought / First fruits, the green ear and the yellow sheaf.
- 1911, J. Milton Hayes, "The green eye of the little yellow god,"
- There's a one-eyed yellow idol / To the north of Kathmandu; / There's a little marble cross below the town; / And a brokenhearted woman / Tends the grave of 'Mad' Carew, / While the yellow god for ever gazes down.
- 1962 (quoting c. 1398 text), Hans Kurath & Sherman M. Kuhn, editors, Middle English Dictionary, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan Press, ISBN 978-0-472-01044-8, page 1242:
- dorr??, d?r? adj. & n. […] Golden or reddish-yellow […] (a. 1398) *Trev. Barth. 59b/a: ?elou? colour [of urine] […] tokeneþ febleness of hete […] dorrey & citrine & li?t red tokeneþ mene.
- Antonyms: nonyellow, unyellow
- 1667, John Milton, Paradise Lost (1667) - Book X, line 434
- (informal) Lacking courage.
- 1951, J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye, Chapter 13:
- What you should be is not yellow at all. If you're supposed to sock somebody in the jaw, and you sort of feel like doing it, you should do it.
- 1975, Monty Python, Monty Python and the Holy Grail
- You yellow bastards! Come back here and take what's coming to you!
- Synonym: cowardly
- 1951, J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye, Chapter 13:
- (publishing, journalism) Characterized by sensationalism, lurid content, and doubtful accuracy.
- 2004, Doreen Carvajal, "Photo edict muffles gossipy press," International Herald Tribune, 4 Oct. (retrieved 29 July 2008),
- The denizens of the gossipy world of the pink press, purple prose and yellow tabloids are shivering over disputed photographs of Princess Caroline of Monaco.
- 2004, Doreen Carvajal, "Photo edict muffles gossipy press," International Herald Tribune, 4 Oct. (retrieved 29 July 2008),
- (chiefly derogatory, offensive, racist) Of the skin, having the colour traditionally attributed to Far East Asians, especially Chinese.
- (chiefly derogatory, offensive, ethnic slur) Far East Asian (relating to Asian people).
- 1913, Sax Rohmer, The Insidious Dr. Fu-Manchu
- Imagine that awful being, and you have a mental picture of Dr. Fu-Manchu, the yellow peril incarnate in one man.
- 1913, Sax Rohmer, The Insidious Dr. Fu-Manchu
- (dated, Australia, offensive) Of mixed Aboriginal and Caucasian ancestry.
- 1938, Xavier Herbert, Capricornia, Chapter VI, p. 64, [2]
- "Eh, Oscar—you hear about your yeller nephew?".
- 1938, Xavier Herbert, Capricornia, Chapter VI, p. 64, [2]
- (dated, US) Synonym of high yellow
- 1933 September 9, James Thurber, “My Life and Hard Times—VI. A Sequence of Servants”, in The New Yorker
- Charley threw her over for a yellow gal named Nancy: he never forgave Vashti for the vanishing from his life of a menace that had come to mean more to him than Vashti herself.
- 1933 September 9, James Thurber, “My Life and Hard Times—VI. A Sequence of Servants”, in The New Yorker
- (Britain, politics) Related to the Liberal Democrats.
- 2012 March 2, Andrew Grice, "Yellow rebels take on Clegg over NHS 'betrayal'", The Independent
- (politics) Related to the Free Democratic Party of Germany.
Derived terms
Translations
Noun
yellow (plural yellows)
- The colour of gold, butter, or a lemon; the colour obtained by mixing green and red light, or by subtracting blue from white light.
- (US) The intermediate light in a set of three traffic lights, the illumination of which indicates that drivers should stop short of the intersection if it is safe to do so.
- (snooker) One of the colour balls used in snooker, with a value of 2 points.
- (pocket billiards) One of two groups of object balls, or a ball from that group, as used in the principally British version of pool that makes use of unnumbered balls (the (yellow(s) and red(s)); contrast stripes and solids in the originally American version with numbered balls).
- (sports) A yellow card.
- Any of various pierid butterflies of the subfamily Coliadinae, especially the yellow coloured species. Compare sulphur.
Synonyms
- (intermediate light in a set of three traffic lights): amber (British)
Antonyms
- (intermediate light in a set of three traffic lights): red, green
Hyponyms
- (color): bronze yellow, cadmium yellow, fast yellow AB, quinoline yellow, school bus yellow, sulfur yellow, sulphur yellow, taxi yellow, yellow-green, yellow 2G
Derived terms
- beyellowed
- see yellow
Translations
Verb
yellow (third-person singular simple present yellows, present participle yellowing, simple past and past participle yellowed)
- (intransitive) To become yellow or more yellow.
- 1977, Alistair Horne, A Savage War of Peace, New York Review Books 2006, page 47:
- Then suddenly, with the least warning, the sky yellows and the Chergui blows in from the Sahara, stinging the eyes and choking with its sandy, sticky breath.
- 2013, Robert Miraldi, Seymour Hersh, Potomac Books, Inc. (?ISBN), page 187:
- Interviews, clippings, yellowing stories from foreign newspapers, notebooks with old scribblings. Salisbury called it the debris of a reporter always too much on the run to sort out the paper, but there it was, an investigator's dream, […]
- 1977, Alistair Horne, A Savage War of Peace, New York Review Books 2006, page 47:
- (transitive) To make (something) yellow or more yellow.
Translations
See also
- All pages with yellow as a prefix
References
Anagrams
- Yowell
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aurum
English
Etymology
From Latin aurum (“gold”). Doublet of or.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /???.??m/
- Rhymes: -????m
Noun
aurum (uncountable)
- (chemistry) gold, used in the names of various substances (see Derived terms)
- An Italian liqueur
Derived terms
- aurum fulminans
- aurum mosacium
- aurum musivum
Descendants
- ? Malay: aurum
Latin
Alternative forms
- ausum
Etymology
Rhoticization of earlier ausum, from Proto-Italic *auzom, from Proto-Indo-European *h?é-h?us-óm (“gold”), from *h?ews- (“to dawn, become light, become red”). Cognate with Lithuanian áuksas, Old Lithuanian ausas, Old Prussian ausis, Tocharian A wäs, Tocharian B yas?.
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /?au?.rum/, [?äu?????]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /?au?.rum/, [???u?rum]
Noun
aurum n (genitive aur?); second declension
- gold (as mineral or metal)
- gold (colour)
- any object made of gold, such as a gold coin or a gold ring
- lustre
- a Golden Age
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter), singular only.
Synonyms
- (the metal gold): chr?sos
Derived terms
Related terms
Descendants
- Eastern Romance:
- Balkan-Romance:
- Aromanian: avru
- Istro-Romanian: aur
- Romanian: aur
- Dalmatian: jaur, yaur, uar, vuar
- Balkan-Romance:
- Western Romance:
- Gallo-Romance:
- Gallo-Italic:
- Emilian: òr, ôr
- Ligurian: öo
- Lombard: òr
- Piedmontese: òr
- Romagnol: or
- Ocitano-Romance
- Old Occitan: aur
- Catalan: or
- Occitan: aur
- Old Occitan: aur
- Oïl:
- Old French: or
- Middle French: or
- French: or
- Middle French: or
- Old French: or
- Rhaeto-Romance:
- Friulian: aur
- Ladin: or
- Romansch: aur, or, ôr
- Gallo-Italic:
- Ibero-Romance
- Navarro-Aragonese:
- Aragonese: oro
- Old Leonese:
- Asturian: oru
- Extremaduran: oru
- Leonese: oru, ouru
- Mirandese: ouro
- Old Portuguese: ouro
- Galician: ouro
- Portuguese: ouro
- Old Spanish: oro
- Ladino: oro
- Spanish: oro
- Navarro-Aragonese:
- Italo-Romance:
- Corsican: oru
- Italian: oro
- Neapolitan: oro
- Sicilian: oru, àuru
- Venetian: oro
- Gallo-Romance:
- Non-Romance:
- ? Albanian: ar
- ? Celtic:
- Brythonic:
- Breton: aour
- Cornish: owr
- Welsh: aur, awr
- Old Irish: ór
- Irish: ór
- Manx: airh
- Scottish Gaelic: òr
- Brythonic:
- ? English: aurum
- Esperanto: oro
References
- De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, ?ISBN, page 63
Further reading
- aurum in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- aurum in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- aurum in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
- aurum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
- aurum in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- aurum in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
Malay
Alternative forms
- ???????
Etymology
Borrowed from English aurum, from Latin aurum.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [aurom], [aur?m], [?rum], [aurum]
- Rhymes: -urum, -rum, -um
Noun
aurum (Jawi spelling ???????, informal 1st possessive aurumku, impolite 2nd possessive aurummu, 3rd possessive aurumnya)
- gold (element)
Synonyms
- emas / ????
- kencana / ??????
Old Norse
Etymology
See the etymology of the main entry.
Noun
aurum
- dative plural of eyrir
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