carmine
See also: Carmine and carminé
English
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Carmine ornament on the ceiling of a chapel
Etymology
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From French carmin, from irregular Medieval Latin carminium, itself from Arabic قِرْمِز (qirmiz, “crimson, kermes”) from Persian *کرمست (*kermest), ultimately from Proto-Indo-Iranian *kŕ̥miš (“worm”), plus or with influence from Latin minium. Compare crimson and kermes.[1]
Noun
carmine (countable and uncountable, plural carmines)
- A purplish-red pigment, made from dye obtained from the cochineal beetle; carminic acid or any of its derivatives.
- 1967, Time, "The Case of the Dubious Dye," 6 January, 1967,
- Cases of cubana salmonellosis in three other states were traced to carmine red, and supplies were called in. […] But authorities have been checking other places for carmine red, knowing that it is a favorite coloring in candy, chewing gum, ice cream, cough syrups and drugs. Manufacturers like to use it because of a legal quirk: being a natural rather than a synthetic product, it does not have to be mentioned on labels.
- 1967, Time, "The Case of the Dubious Dye," 6 January, 1967,
- A purplish-red colour, resembling that pigment.
- 1854, Henry David Thoreau, Walden, New York: Thomas Y. Crowell & Co., 1910, Chapter XIV, p. 347,
- He wore a great coat in midsummer, being affected with the trembling delirium, and his face was the color of carmine.
- c. 1862, Emily Dickinson, “(please specify the chapter or poem)”, in M[abel] L[oomis] Todd and M[illicent] T[odd] Bingham, editors, Bolts of Melody, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Row, published 1945, page 140:
- I am alive, I guess, / The branches on my hand / Are full of morning-glory, / And at my fingers' end / The carmine tingles warm,
- 1920, F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise, Chapter 5,
- He pictured himself in an adobe house in Mexico, half-reclining on a rug-covered couch, his slender, artistic fingers closed on a cigarette while he listened to guitars strumming melancholy undertones to an age-old dirge of Castile and an olive-skinned, carmine-lipped girl caressed his hair.
- 1938, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], chapter 4, in Homage to Catalonia, London: Secker & Warburg:
- […] the dawn breaking behind the hill-tops in our rear, the first narrow streaks of gold, like swords slitting the darkness, and then the growing light and the seas of carmine cloud stretching away into inconceivable distances […]
- 1987, Toni Morrison, Beloved, New York: Vintage, 2004, p. 33,
- The velvet I seen was brown, but in Boston they got all colors. Carmine. That means red but when you talk about velvet you got to say 'carmine.'
- carmine:
- 1854, Henry David Thoreau, Walden, New York: Thomas Y. Crowell & Co., 1910, Chapter XIV, p. 347,
Synonyms
- (pigment): crimson, cochineal, C.I. 75470, E120
Derived terms
- carmine red
- indigo carmine
- paracarmine
Translations
purplish-red pigment
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purplish-red colour
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Adjective
carmine
- Of the purplish red colour shade carmine.
Translations
of the purplish red colour shade carmine
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See also
- (reds) red; blood red, brick red, burgundy, cardinal, carmine, carnation, cerise, cherry, cherry red, Chinese red, cinnabar, claret, crimson, damask, fire brick, fire engine red, flame, flamingo, fuchsia, garnet, geranium, gules, hot pink, incarnadine, Indian red, magenta, maroon, misty rose, nacarat, oxblood, pillar-box red, pink, Pompeian red, poppy, raspberry, red violet, rose, rouge, ruby, ruddy, salmon, sanguine, scarlet, shocking pink, stammel, strawberry, Turkey red, Venetian red, vermillion, vinaceous, vinous, violet red, wine (Category: en:Reds)
References
- 2017 May 23, Salvatore Gaspa; Cécile Michel; Marie-Louise Nosch, “Textile Terminologies”, in Zea Books, DOI::
Anagrams
- Crimean, Mercian, ceriman, minecar
French
Pronunciation
Audio (file)
Verb
carmine
- inflection of carminer:
- first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
- second-person singular imperative
Latin
Noun
carmine
- ablative singular of carmen
References
- carmine in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
Spanish
Verb
carmine
- inflection of carminar:
- first/third-person singular present subjunctive
- third-person singular imperative