pigment

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English

Wikipedia

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).

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?)

Derived terms

• pigmentary

Related terms

• pimiento

Translations

any color in plant or animal cells

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 色素 (cmn) (sèsù)

• Dutch: pigment (nl) n
• Finnish: pigmentti (fi), väriaine (fi)
• French: pigment (fr) m
• German: Pigment (de) n
• Greek: χρωστική ουσία (el) (chrostikí ousía) f 
• Hungarian: pigment (hu)

• Japanese: 色素 (ja) (しきそ, shikiso), 顔料 (ja) (がんりょう, ganryō)
• Korean: 색소 (ko) (saekso) (色素 (ko))
• Polish: pigment (pl) m
• Russian: пигмент (ru) (pigmént) m 
• Vietnamese: sắc tố (vi) (色素 (vi))
• Volapük: köl, täin

a dry colorant, usually an insoluble powder

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 顏料 (cmn), 颜料 (cmn) (yánliào), 著色劑 (cmn), 着色剂 (cmn) (zhuósèjì)

• Dutch: pigment (nl) n, kleurstof (nl)
• Finnish: pigmentti (fi), väriaine (fi)
• German: Farbstoff (de) m
• Greek: βαφή (el) (vafí) f 

• Japanese: 顔料 (ja) (がんりょう, ganryō)
• Polish: pigment (pl) m
• Russian: пигмент (ru) (pigmént) m , краситель (ru) (krasítelʹ) m 
• Volapük: köl

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Translations to be checked

• French: pigment m, colorant m
• Galician: pigmento m
• German: Farbstoff, Pigment n
• Interlingua: pigmento
• Italian: pigmento m

• Latin: pigmentum (la) n
• Norwegian: pigment
• Portuguese: pigmento m
• Spanish: pigmento m

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.

Derived terms

• pigmentation

Translations

To add color or pigment

• Dutch: kleuren, pigmenteren
• Finnish: värjätä (fi)

• Polish: pigmentować (pl)

Anagrams

• temping

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Dutch

Etymology

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

Noun

pigment n (^??? please provide the plural!, ^??? please provide the diminutive!)

1. pigment, coloring substance

Derived terms

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

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French

Etymology

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

Noun

pigment m (plural pigments)

1. pigment, coloring substance

Derived terms

• pigmentaire
• pigmentation
• pigmenter