gredelin

Swedish

Etymology

Borrowed from French gridelin.

Adjective

gredelin (not comparable)

1. (color, now rare) (bright) lavender

   gredelin:  

Usage notes

• The color above is an approximation. Kind of a faded purple.
• Still fairly well known, mostly from a character "tant Gredelin" ("Aunt Lavender" in the English translation) appearing in a series of storybooks by Elsa Beskow.

Declension

Inflection of gredelin
Indefinite	Positive	Comparative	Superlative2
Common singular	gredelin	—	—
Neuter singular	gredelint	—	—
Plural	gredelina	—	—
Masculine plural3	gredeline	—	—
Definite	Positive	Comparative	Superlative
Masculine singular1	gredeline	—	—
All	gredelina	—	—
1) Only used, optionally, to refer to things whose natural gender is masculine. 2) The indefinite superlative forms are only used in the predicative. 3) Dated or archaic

See also

• lila
• purpur
• violett

References

• gredelin in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• gredelin in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• gredelin in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)