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violet

noun
/ˈvaɪ.ə.lət/US

Etymology

Etymology tree Latin viola Old French -ette Old French violettebor. Middle English violet English violet Inherited from Middle English violet, vyolet, vyolette, from Old French violette, from Latin viola (“violet”) + -ette. Cognate with Lithuanian violetinė (“purple, violet”) and Spanish violeta (“purple, violet”).

  1. derived from viola — “violet”
  2. derived from violette
  3. inherited from violet

Definitions

  1. A plant or flower of the genus Viola, especially the fragrant Viola odorata

    A plant or flower of the genus Viola, especially the fragrant Viola odorata; (inexact) similar-looking plants and flowers.

    • Albertus Magnus, the thirteenth century philosopher and occultist, states that coriander, valerian, and violet are love producing herbs.

  2. A person thought to resemble V. odorata, especially in its beauty and delicacy.

    • ‘Tom,’ he said, ‘you are looking at a crushed violet, a spent egg, a squeezed tube.’

  3. The color of most violets

    The color of most violets; the colour evoked by the shortest visible wavelengths between 380 and 435 nm, an additive tertiary colour.

  4. ›+ 8 more definitions

    1. Clothes and (ecclesiastical) vestments of such a colour.

    2. The characteristic scent of V. odorata.

    3. Synonym of onion (“vegetable”).

    4. Of a violet colour.

    5. A female given name from English.

      • It may be as well to say, by way of parenthesis, that her real name was Violante,―at least, such was the name by which her mother had her christened. But her father thought it much too long, and said it was better to call her Violet.
      • Her Pakeha name was Violet, and everybody called her that because her Maori name was too long. And my Nanny, she was just like a violet; shy and small and hiding her face in her petals if the sun blazed too strong.
      • My name is Violet Brown. - - - If I sound colorful, I am not. It's nought but a pair of names, stamped on me by two people who never met. First, my mother. She was fond of romantic novels with "Violets" in them.

    6. A surname.

    7. A number of places in the United States

      A number of places in the United States:

    8. A community in Loyalist, Lennox and Addington County, Ontario, Canada.

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Derived

African violet, American dog violet, azo violet, bee violet, bird's-foot violet, blue violet, bog violet, bush violet, calathian violet, Canada violet, Canadian violet, Chinese violet, common violet, crystal violet, damask violet, dame's violet, dog's violet, dogtooth violet, dog's tooth violet, dog violet, English violet, false violet, flame violet, florist's violet, garden violet, gentian violet, green violet, green-violet, halberdleaf yellow violet, Hofmann's violet, hooded violet, horned violet, Lauth's violet, long-spurred violet, marsh violet, methyl violet, Nuremberg violet, Ontario violet, Parma violet, Persian violet · +20 more

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at violet. 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.

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A definitional loop anchored at violet. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

5 hops · closes at violet

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA