violet

vi·o·let

1. any of a genus (Viola) of plants of the violet family, having white, blue, purple, or yellow irregular flowers with short spurs
2. the flower of any of these plants
any of various similar plants, as the African violet, or their flowers
a bluish-purple color

Origin of violet

Middle English from Old French violette, diminutive of viole from Classical Latin viola, a violet from or akin to Classical Greek ion, violet

designating a family (Violaceae, order Violales) of temperate and tropical dicotyledonous plants having five-parted flowers, a one-celled ovary, and a three-valved fruit capsule, including the pansies
of the color violet

Violet

a feminine name: dim. Vi

Origin of Violet

from violet

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violet

noun

a. Any of various low-growing herbs of the genus Viola, having short-spurred, irregular flowers that are characteristically purplish-blue but sometimes yellow or white.
b. Any of several similar plants, such as an African violet.
The hue of the short-wave end of the visible spectrum, evoked in the human observer by radiant energy with wavelengths of approximately 380 to 420 nanometers; any of a group of colors, reddish-blue in hue, that may vary in lightness and saturation.

Origin of violet

Middle English from Old French violete diminutive of viole from Latin viola ; see viola ².

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Noun

(plural violets)

A bluish-purple colour.
Viola, a genus of fragrant plants with white, purple or yellow flowers.
Any of several plants that look like the plants of the genus Viola but are taxonomically unrelated to them.

Adjective

(comparative violeter, superlative violetest)

Having a bluish-purple colour.

Origin

From Old French violette, from Latin viola (“violet")

Proper noun

A female given name.

Origin

A 19th century flower name from violet, sometimes as an anglicisation of the earlier French Violette.

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