ma·gen·ta 
(mə-jĕntə)
(mə-jĕntə)n.
1. See fuchsin.
2. A purplish red, one of the subtractive primary colors.
[After Magenta, a town in Lombardy where, as part of Italy's wars for independence, combined forces of France and the Kingdom of Sardinia defeated forces of the Austrian Empire in 1859, the year in which fuchsin was patented.]