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Etymology

From Middle English pigment, from Latin pigmentum (“pigment”), itself from pingō (“to paint”) + -mentum; variants of this word may have been known in Old English (e.g. 12th century pyhmentum). Doublet of pimiento, pimento, and piment.

derived from pigmentum
inherited from pigment

Definitions

1
Any color in plant or animal cells.
- Chlorophyll is the pigment responsible for most plants' green colouring.
2
A dry colorant, usually an insoluble powder.
- Umber is a pigment made from clay containing iron and manganese oxide.
3
Wine flavoured with spices and honey.
- Oswald, broach the oldest wine-cask; place the best mead, the richest morat, the most sparkling cyder, the most odoriferous pigment, upon the board; […]
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1. To add color or pigment to something.

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Derived

accessory pigment, azo pigment, bile pigment, biopigment, copigment, cytopigment, depigment, fugitive pigment, interpigment, lake pigment, lipopigment, nonpigment, phaeopigment, pheopigment, photopigment, phytopigment, pigmental, pigmentary, pigmentate, pigment dispersion syndrome, pigmentize, pigmentless, pigmentlike, pigmentocracy, pigmentous, pigmenturia, respiratory pigment

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A definitional loop anchored at pigment. 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 pigment. 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 pigment

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