magentan.adj.

Brit.

/məˈdʒɛntə/, U.S.

/məˈdʒɛn(t)ə/

Origin: From a proper name. Etymon: proper name Magenta.

Etymology: < Magenta, the name of a town in northern Italy near which the French and Sardinians under Napoleon III defeated the Austrians in 1859, shortly before the dye was discovered. Compare Magdala red n.The word occurs in French only as a loan from English (1862).

A. n.

1. A purple-pink aniline dye, fuchsin; the colour of this dye. Originally more fully Magenta red.

ΘΚΠ

the world > matter > colour > named colours > red or redness > red colouring matter > [noun] > dyes and dyestuffs

madderOE

grain1335

alkanet1343

Brazilc1386

crop-maddera1399

red-scarletc1400

alcanna?a1425

lac?c1425

madder root?c1450

incarnationa1475

jarecork1483

orchil1483

mull1507

orcanet1548

Bristol-red1551

red sanders1553

cochineal1582

safflower1583

chay1588

Pernambuco1595

red sanderswood1598

redwood1634

peach woodc1638

scarlet1653

mesteque1667

bow-dye1676

sylvester1697

corkir1703

gamene1703

orchilla1703

crap1721

saffranon1731

kino1788

Turkey red1789

lizary1791

granilla1812

munjeet1813

rubiate1835

orcein1838

purpurin1839

ruby wood1843

sassafrid1852

aal1853

pink salt1853

magenta1860

fuchsine1865

paeonin1865

safranine1868

corallin1873

marina1874

Magdala red1875

alizarin1878

eosin1879

Turkey red oil1879

roccelline1880

ponceau1885

amarant1888

phloxine1890

hypernic1897

Turkish red1900

Lithol red1930

1860 R. Smith Patent 11 Aug. in Newton's London Jrnl. Arts & Sci. (1861) 13 225 What is called ‘Magenta red’,..may be obtained as follows.

1861 R. Hunt in St. James's Mag. 1 43 The much-admired tones of the Mauve and Magenta.

1875 T. H. Huxley & H. N. Martin Course Elem. Biol. (1877) 7 Run in magenta solution under the cover-glass.

1891 Truth 10 Dec. 1240/2 Velvet of a peculiarly bright and daring tone of dahlia red, almost a magenta.

1924 A. T. de Mouilpied Quest for Colour iv. 20 Bleu de Lyon—a spirit soluble blue derived from Magenta.

1951 E. Paul Springtime in Paris (U.K. ed.) v. 91 Cloud battalions retreating, and stragglers streaked with red—geranium, salmon, vermilion, magenta.

1991 N. Mailer Harlot's Ghost vi. viii. 1043 Their gardens and flowering trees are a riot of magenta and red.

2. Particle Physics. One of the three anticolours of antiquarks.The other two anticolours are cyan and yellow.

ΚΠ

1976 Sci. Amer. Nov. 51/3 For the three values of the quantum number it is convenient to adopt the three primary colors red, green and blue; the antiquarks have anticolors, which can be represented by the complements of the primaries, respectively cyan, magenta and yellow. (None of these terms, of course, has any connection with its conventional meaning; they are arbitrary labels.)

1983 Sci. Amer. Feb. 39/1 The three quarks in a proton or a lambda particle must include one red, one purple and one green, whereas the quark and the antiquark in a pi meson can be red and cyan, purple and yellow or green and magenta.

1984 F. Halzen & A. Martin Quarks & Leptons i. 5 The antiquarks are assigned the complementary colors: cyan (R), magenta (G), and yellow (B).

B. adj. (chiefly attributive).

Of the colour of magenta.

ΘΚΠ

the world > matter > colour > named colours > red or redness > [adjective] > bright red or scarlet

scarletc1386

puniceousa1398

vermeilc1400

corala1522

Punic?1553

orient1578

vermilion1589

wax-red1593

cherry-red1594

Punical1606

coralline?1608

scarleted1641

coccineous1654

cinnabrianc1668

poppy-coloured1677

miniaceous1688

phoeniceous1688

cherry-coloured1695

coral-red1700

cardinal1755

cherried1762

ponceau1774

punicean1786

cinnabar1807

geraniumed1819

miniatous1826

cardinal scarlet1828

vermilion-coloured1835–6

geranium-coloured1836

pink1846

cardinal red1850

lobster-red1856

phoenicean1857

magenta1877

angered1878

scarlet-vermilion1882

tomato1889

camellia-red1890

miniate1891

nasturtium-red1896

sealing-wax1912

1861 A. Trollope in Cornhill Mag. Sept. 323 We'll call it Magenta House, and we'll paint it magenta from the roof to the window tops.]

1877 C. Reade Woman-hater I. ix. 208 He wore..a magenta tie that gave Zoe a pain in the eye.

1896 J. M. Barrie Margaret Ogilvy ix. 178 I used to wear a magenta frock and a white pinafore.

1920 Rec. Home & Foreign Mission Work United Free Church Scotl. Dec. 226/2 Patches of white and magenta flowers called Cosmos.

1954 J. Betjeman Few Late Chrysanthemums 43 I pulled aside the thick magenta curtains—So Regency, so Regency, my dear—.

1989 Skin Diver May 160/2 The ledges are covered with strawberry anemones, magenta algae, tunicates, tiny spider crabs, nudibranchs, brittlestars, starfish..and bright orange sponges.

Compounds

magenta-coloured adj.; also with other designations of colour (but see also Magenta red at sense A. 1).

ΚΠ

1861 A. Trollope in Cornhill Mag. Sept. 334 The girls were all decorated with magenta-coloured ribbons.

1863 R. Fortune Visits Japan & China xi. 186 Its flowers, of a rich magenta colour, were arranged in tiers.

1882 Garden 29 Apr. 288/2 Tulips..Proserpine, magenta-pink.

1913 S. Graham With Russ. Pilgrims to Jerusalem vii. 72 The magenta-coloured waters of the strait, mist-shrouded before sunrise.

1923 W. Gamble in L. C. Martin Colour xi. 158 The hues of these four fundamental..colours may in popular terms be described as magenta red, lemon yellow, emerald green, and ultramarine blue.

1952 A. G. L. Hellyer Sanders' Encycl. Gardening (ed. 22) 339 Spilotrume, yellow, brown, disk of lip magenta-purple, tubercled, spring, Brazil.

a1992 L. Colwin More Home Cooking (1993) xv. 77 A magenta-colored vegetable can be a real plus when it comes to the art of food arrangement.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2000; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	magenta
释义	magentan.adj. Brit. /məˈdʒɛntə/, U.S. /məˈdʒɛn(t)ə/ Origin: From a proper name. Etymon: proper name Magenta. Etymology: < Magenta, the name of a town in northern Italy near which the French and Sardinians under Napoleon III defeated the Austrians in 1859, shortly before the dye was discovered. Compare Magdala red n.The word occurs in French only as a loan from English (1862). A. n. 1. A purple-pink aniline dye, fuchsin; the colour of this dye. Originally more fully Magenta red. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > colour > named colours > red or redness > red colouring matter > [noun] > dyes and dyestuffs madderOE grain1335 alkanet1343 Brazilc1386 crop-maddera1399 red-scarletc1400 alcanna?a1425 lac?c1425 madder root?c1450 incarnationa1475 jarecork1483 orchil1483 mull1507 orcanet1548 Bristol-red1551 red sanders1553 cochineal1582 safflower1583 chay1588 Pernambuco1595 red sanderswood1598 redwood1634 peach woodc1638 scarlet1653 mesteque1667 bow-dye1676 sylvester1697 corkir1703 gamene1703 orchilla1703 crap1721 saffranon1731 kino1788 Turkey red1789 lizary1791 granilla1812 munjeet1813 rubiate1835 orcein1838 purpurin1839 ruby wood1843 sassafrid1852 aal1853 pink salt1853 magenta1860 fuchsine1865 paeonin1865 safranine1868 corallin1873 marina1874 Magdala red1875 alizarin1878 eosin1879 Turkey red oil1879 roccelline1880 ponceau1885 amarant1888 phloxine1890 hypernic1897 Turkish red1900 Lithol red1930 1860 R. Smith Patent 11 Aug. in Newton's London Jrnl. Arts & Sci. (1861) 13 225 What is called ‘Magenta red’,..may be obtained as follows. 1861 R. Hunt in St. James's Mag. 1 43 The much-admired tones of the Mauve and Magenta. 1875 T. H. Huxley & H. N. Martin Course Elem. Biol. (1877) 7 Run in magenta solution under the cover-glass. 1891 Truth 10 Dec. 1240/2 Velvet of a peculiarly bright and daring tone of dahlia red, almost a magenta. 1924 A. T. de Mouilpied Quest for Colour iv. 20 Bleu de Lyon—a spirit soluble blue derived from Magenta. 1951 E. Paul Springtime in Paris (U.K. ed.) v. 91 Cloud battalions retreating, and stragglers streaked with red—geranium, salmon, vermilion, magenta. 1991 N. Mailer Harlot's Ghost vi. viii. 1043 Their gardens and flowering trees are a riot of magenta and red. 2. Particle Physics. One of the three anticolours of antiquarks.The other two anticolours are cyan and yellow. ΚΠ 1976 Sci. Amer. Nov. 51/3 For the three values of the quantum number it is convenient to adopt the three primary colors red, green and blue; the antiquarks have anticolors, which can be represented by the complements of the primaries, respectively cyan, magenta and yellow. (None of these terms, of course, has any connection with its conventional meaning; they are arbitrary labels.) 1983 Sci. Amer. Feb. 39/1 The three quarks in a proton or a lambda particle must include one red, one purple and one green, whereas the quark and the antiquark in a pi meson can be red and cyan, purple and yellow or green and magenta. 1984 F. Halzen & A. Martin Quarks & Leptons i. 5 The antiquarks are assigned the complementary colors: cyan (R), magenta (G), and yellow (B). B. adj. (chiefly attributive). Of the colour of magenta. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > colour > named colours > red or redness > [adjective] > bright red or scarlet scarletc1386 puniceousa1398 vermeilc1400 corala1522 Punic?1553 orient1578 vermilion1589 wax-red1593 cherry-red1594 Punical1606 coralline?1608 scarleted1641 coccineous1654 cinnabrianc1668 poppy-coloured1677 miniaceous1688 phoeniceous1688 cherry-coloured1695 coral-red1700 cardinal1755 cherried1762 ponceau1774 punicean1786 cinnabar1807 geraniumed1819 miniatous1826 cardinal scarlet1828 vermilion-coloured1835–6 geranium-coloured1836 pink1846 cardinal red1850 lobster-red1856 phoenicean1857 magenta1877 angered1878 scarlet-vermilion1882 tomato1889 camellia-red1890 miniate1891 nasturtium-red1896 sealing-wax1912 1861 A. Trollope in Cornhill Mag. Sept. 323 We'll call it Magenta House, and we'll paint it magenta from the roof to the window tops.] 1877 C. Reade Woman-hater I. ix. 208 He wore..a magenta tie that gave Zoe a pain in the eye. 1896 J. M. Barrie Margaret Ogilvy ix. 178 I used to wear a magenta frock and a white pinafore. 1920 Rec. Home & Foreign Mission Work United Free Church Scotl. Dec. 226/2 Patches of white and magenta flowers called Cosmos. 1954 J. Betjeman Few Late Chrysanthemums 43 I pulled aside the thick magenta curtains—So Regency, so Regency, my dear—. 1989 Skin Diver May 160/2 The ledges are covered with strawberry anemones, magenta algae, tunicates, tiny spider crabs, nudibranchs, brittlestars, starfish..and bright orange sponges. Compounds magenta-coloured adj.; also with other designations of colour (but see also Magenta red at sense A. 1). ΚΠ 1861 A. Trollope in Cornhill Mag. Sept. 334 The girls were all decorated with magenta-coloured ribbons. 1863 R. Fortune Visits Japan & China xi. 186 Its flowers, of a rich magenta colour, were arranged in tiers. 1882 Garden 29 Apr. 288/2 Tulips..Proserpine, magenta-pink. 1913 S. Graham With Russ. Pilgrims to Jerusalem vii. 72 The magenta-coloured waters of the strait, mist-shrouded before sunrise. 1923 W. Gamble in L. C. Martin Colour xi. 158 The hues of these four fundamental..colours may in popular terms be described as magenta red, lemon yellow, emerald green, and ultramarine blue. 1952 A. G. L. Hellyer Sanders' Encycl. Gardening (ed. 22) 339 Spilotrume, yellow, brown, disk of lip magenta-purple, tubercled, spring, Brazil. a1992 L. Colwin More Home Cooking (1993) xv. 77 A magenta-colored vegetable can be a real plus when it comes to the art of food arrangement. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2000; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.adj.1860
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