variegated

English

WOTD – 27 April 2008

Pronunciation

• (General American) enPR: vârʹēəgā'tĭd, IPA^(key): /ˈveəɹɪəˌɡeɪtɪd/, /ˈvæɹi.əˌɡeɪtɪd/
• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: vârʹēəgā'tĭd, IPA^(key): /ˈveəɹɪəˌɡeɪtɪd/

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Adjective

variegated (comparative more variegated, superlative most variegated)

1. Streaked, spotted, or otherwise marked with a variety of color.

   Synonyms: patterned; see also Thesaurus:marked

   • 1769, Firishta, translated by Alexander Dow, Tales translated from the Persian of Inatulla of Delhi, volume I, Dublin: P. and W. Wilson et al., page iii:

     There I beheld the painter of the year diſplaying his variegated fancies on his leafy tablets, and, with the pencil of power dipped in the æthereal bow, writing the leſſons of wiſdom divine on the fair forehead of blooming Nature.

   • 1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 279:

     From the heights a view was now and then obtained between the lofty pine and fir-trees of the valley below with its smiling fields and variegated woods of birch and alder trees, between which the river wound like a narrow silvery streak.

2. (by extension) Very colorful.

   Synonyms: motley, multicolored, polychromatic; see also Thesaurus:multicolored

Derived terms

• variegated coffee bug
• variegated fairywren
• variegated horsetail
• variegated star macromolecule
• variegated tinamou

 

Related terms

• variegate

Translations

streaked or spotted with a variety of colours

• Azerbaijani: rəngarəng, rəngbərəng, əlvan (az), alabəzək
• Bashkir: сыбар (sıbar)
• Belarusian: страка́ты (strakáty), пёстры (pjóstry) (regional), пярэ́сты (pjarésty)
• Bulgarian: пъ́стър (bg) (pǎ́stǎr)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 雜色的／杂色的 (zh) (zásè de), 斑驳的

• Czech: pestrý (cs), pestrobarevný, strakatý (cs) m
• Dutch: bont (nl)
• Finnish: kirjava (fi)
• French: bigarré (fr), multicolore (fr)
• Galician: pégaro, apigarado, multicolor, pego (gl), pinto (gl)
• Georgian: ჭრელი (ka) (č̣reli), ფერად-ფერადი (perad-peradi), ნაირ-ფერი (nair-peri)
• German: bunt (de), scheckig, buntgefleckt, vielfarbig (de), gemustert (de), buntgemustert
• Greek: ποικίλος (el) (poikílos)

  Ancient: ποικίλος (poikílos)

• Hungarian: tarka (hu)
• Italian: variegato (it)
• Japanese: 多彩 (ja) (たさい, tasai)
• Kashubian: bestri
• Korean: 잡색의 (japsaegui)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: ئاڵواڵا (allwalla), رەنگین (rengîn)

• Latvian: raibs (lv)
• Lithuanian: raibas
• Macedonian: ша́рен (šáren)
• Maori: iraira
• Old Church Slavonic:

  Cyrillic: пьстръ (pĭstrŭ)

• Ottoman Turkish: آلا (ala)
• Plautdietsch: bunt
• Polish: srokaty (pl), pstry (pl)
• Portuguese: variegado (pt)
• Romanian: vărgat (ro), bălțat (ro)
• Russian: пёстрый (ru) (pjóstryj), разноцве́тный (ru) (raznocvétnyj)
• Sanskrit: शर्वर (sa) (śarvara), पृषत् (sa) (pṛṣat)
• Scottish Gaelic: ballach
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: шарен

  Roman: šaren (sh)

• Slovak: pestrý
• Slovene: pester
• Spanish: variegado (es), abigarrado (es)
• Swedish: färgsprakande (sv)
• Tagalog: kabang
• Ukrainian: строка́тий (strokátyj), пістри́й (pistrýj) (regional)

Verb

variegated

1. simple past and past participle of variegate