incarnadine
The pale pink or pale red colour of fleshThe pale pink or pale red colour of flesh; carnation.
Translations
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3 senses(archaic, countable, literary, uncountable)The pale pink or pale red colour of flesh; carnation.
(archaic, countable, literary, uncountable)The blood-red colour of raw flesh; crimson.
(archaic, countable, literary, uncountable)A red colour.
Origin
The adjective is derived from French incarnadin, incarnadine, from Italian incarnadino, aThe adjective is derived from French incarnadin, incarnadine, from Italian incarnadino, a variant of incarnatino (“carnation; flesh colour”), from incarnato (“embodied, incarnate”) + -ino (suffix forming adjectives denoting composition, colour, or other qualities). Incarnato is derived from Ecclesiastical Latin and Late Latin incarnātus (“having been made incarnate”), the perfect passive participle of incarnō (“to become or make incarnate; to make into flesh”), from in- (suffix meaning ‘in, inside, within’) + Latin carō (“flesh, meat; body”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- (“to cut off”)) + -ō (suffix forming regular first-conjugation verbs). By surface analysis, in- + Latin carn- + -ade + -ine.
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Forms
plural: incarnadines| Singular | incarnadine |
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Lessons for this word
1 lessons- A1Countable and uncountable nouns — Because it can be uncountable
See also
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