Violet
Word: violetViolet Meanings:
- Any plant or flower of the genus Viola, of many species. The violets are generally low, herbaceous plants, and the flowers of many of the species are blue, while others are white or yellow, or of several colors, as the pansy (Viola tricolor)
- The color of a violet, or that part of the spectrum farthest from red. It is the most refrangible part of the spectrum
- In art, a color produced by a combination of red and blue in equal proportions; a bluish purple color
- Any one of numerous species of small violet-colored butterflies belonging to Lycaena, or Rusticus, and allied genera
- Dark blue, inclining to red; bluish purple; having a color produced by red and blue combined
- (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA(key): /ˈvaɪələt/, /ˈvaɪlət/
- A plant or flower of the genus Viola, especially the fragrant Viola odorata; (inexact) similar-looking plants and flowers. Synonym: (historical US) rooster
- (figurative) A person thought to resemble V. odorata, especially in its beauty and delicacy.
- Clothes and (ecclesiastical) vestments of such a colour.
- (perfumes) The characteristic scent of V. odorata.
- (UK dialect) Synonym of onion.
- Viola on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
- Viola on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
- Olivet, Voitel, olivet, toivel
- (uncountable) violet, a purplish colour
- (botany) violet, viola Synonym: viooltjie
- M. J. Koenen & J. Endepols, Verklarend Handwoordenboek der Nederlandse Taal (tevens Vreemde-woordentolk), Groningen, Wolters-Noordhoff, 1969 (26th edition)
- Homophones: violais, violait, violaient
- (countable) mushroom with a violet cap, such as a webcap or cortinar
- Louisiana Creole: vyolé
- “violet”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé , 2012.
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈu̯i.o.let/,
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈvi.o.let/,
- third-person singular present active subjunctive of violō
- vyolet, vyolette, violette, vyelet, vialet
- violet (plant in the genus Viola)
- violet, blue-purple (colour)
- English: violet
- “vī̆olet, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-03-30.
- “vī̆olet, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-03-30.
- purple (color) Synonym: mov
- violet in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)