magenta
nounEtymology
Borrowed from French magenta, from Italian Magenta, in commemoration of the Franco-Italian victory at the Battle of Magenta in 1859. An aniline dye in this colour had been invented the same year by French chemist François-Emmanuel Verguin and was named in honour of the battle. The town's name derives from Latin Castra Maxentia (“the camp named Maxentia”), referring to the emperor Maxentius. Compare Castra Regina for a similar appositional use of a proper noun with castra.
- derived from Castra Maxentia
- derived from Magenta
- borrowed from magenta
Definitions
A color which is close to the equal mixture of red and blue which is an additive…
A color which is close to the equal mixture of red and blue which is an additive secondary color but a subtractive primary color evoked by the combination of red and light blue.
- Mrs Dibble's face blazed with a magenta uprush of blood at that ultimatum and she screamed, "You dare try to do me out of my gin too! You dare!"
Having the color of fuchsia, fuchsine, light purple.
A town and comune in the Metropolitan City of Milan, Lombardy, Italy, site of the Battle…
A town and comune in the Metropolitan City of Milan, Lombardy, Italy, site of the Battle of Magenta after which the color magenta was named.
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A commune in Marne department, Grand Est, France, named after the Battle of Magenta.
A coastal locality in Central Coast council area, New South Wales, Australia.
The neighborhood
Vish — recursive loop
A definitional loop anchored at magenta. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.
A definitional loop anchored at magenta. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.
9 hops · closes at magenta
curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.
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