pigment

See also: Pigment

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈpɪɡ.mənt/

Noun

pigment (plural pigments)

  1. (biology) 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. (obsolete) Wine flavoured with spices and honey.
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Sir Walter Scott to this entry?)

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Translations

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Verb

pigment (third-person singular simple present pigments, present participle pigmenting, simple past and past participle pigmented)

  1. (transitive) To add color or pigment to something.

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Dutch

Etymology

From Latin pigmentum (“pigment”), itself from pingō (“I paint”) + -mentum.

Pronunciation

  • Audio(file)
  • Hyphenation: pig‧ment
  • Rhymes: -ɛnt

Noun

pigment n (plural pigmenten, diminutive pigmentje n)

  1. pigment, coloring substance

Derived terms

  • pigmentatie
  • pigmenteren
  • pigmentering
  • pigmentpapier n
  • pigmentvreter m

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin pigmentum (“pigment”), itself from pingō (“I paint”) + -mentum. Doublet of piment, a borrowing from Spanish.

Noun

pigment m (plural pigments)

  1. pigment, coloring substance

Derived terms

Further reading

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Latin pigmentum

Noun

pigment n (definite singular pigmentet, indefinite plural pigment or pigmenter, definite plural pigmenta or pigmentene)

  1. a pigment

References

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Latin pigmentum

Noun

pigment n (definite singular pigmentet, indefinite plural pigment, definite plural pigmenta)

  1. a pigment

References

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From German Pigment, from Latin pigmentum.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /pǐɡment/
  • Hyphenation: pi‧gment

Noun

pìgment m (Cyrillic spelling пѝгмент)

  1. pigment

Declension

References

  • “pigment” in Hrvatski jezični portal
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