blake
English
Etymology 1
From Middle English blak, blac (“pale”), from Old English blāc (“pale, pallid, wan, livid; bright, shining, glittering, flashing”) and Old Norse bleikr (“pale; yellow, pink; any non-red warm color”); both from Proto-Germanic *blaikaz (“pale; shining”). Compare Scots bleg (“light, drab”). More at bleak.
Pronunciation
Audio (US) (file) - Rhymes: -eɪk
Adjective
blake (comparative blaker or more blake, superlative blakest or most blake)
- (Britain dialectal, Northern England, poetic) Pale; wan; sallow; yellow.
Synonyms
- (sickly pale): see also Thesaurus:pallid
Etymology 2
From the Middle English blāken, the northern reproduction (the form in the south was blōken, whence the verb bloke) of the Old English blācian (“to become pale”), from blāc (“shining, white, pale”).
Verb
blake (third-person singular simple present blakes, present participle blaking, simple past and past participle blaked)
- (obsolete, intransitive) To become pale.
Anagrams
- Balke, Kaleb, bleak
Dutch
Pronunciation
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Verb
blake
- (archaic) singular present subjunctive of blaken
Anagrams
- balke, kabel
German
Verb
blake
- First-person singular present of blaken.
- First-person singular subjunctive I of blaken.
- Third-person singular subjunctive I of blaken.
- Imperative singular of blaken.
Middle English
Adjective
blake
- Alternative form of blak