violet英语原文释义、词形变化、词源和词汇关系

英文释义

名词 n.

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

— Refreshed by their cooling bath of evening dew, the violets and other nocturnal flowers emitted a pleasant fragrance over the fields, but from the bogs and the rivulets came up now and then damp, penetrating gusts, that sent an icy chill through me.
A person thought to resemble V. odorata, especially in its beauty and delicacy. figuratively

— ‘Tom,’ he said, ‘you are looking at a crushed violet, a spent egg, a squeezed tube.’
The color of most violets; the colour evoked by the shortest visible wavelengths between 380 and 435 nm, an additive tertiary colour.
Clothes and (ecclesiastical) vestments of such a colour.
The characteristic scent of V. odorata.
Synonym of onion (“vegetable”). UK,dialectal

形容词 adj.

Of a violet colour.

词形变化

violets plural violeter comparative violetest superlative

词汇关系

近义词

fuchsia indigo magenta purple rose thistle ultraviolet violet

上位词

color hue pigment

衍生词

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 Philippine violet red violet Russian violet sand violet Selkirk's violet shrinking violet small bush violet southern woodland violet star violet sweet violet Usambara violet violet bloom violet ray violet root rot Violet Town violet tree water violet white violet wood violet yellow violet

词源

词源 1

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”).

词源 2

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”).