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語源

Borrowed from French magenta, from Italian Magenta, in commemoration of the Franco-Italian victory at the Battle of Magenta in 1859. An aniline dye in this colour had been invented the same year by French chemist François-Emmanuel Verguin and was named in honour of the battle. The town's name derives from Latin Castra Maxentia (“the camp named Maxentia”), referring to the emperor Maxentius. Compare Castra Regina for a similar appositional use of a proper noun with castra.

発音

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA: /məˈd͡ʒɛntə/
• ハイフネーション: ma‧gen‧ta

名詞

magenta (countable and uncountable, plural magentas)

1. A color which is close to the equal mixture of red and blue which is an additive secondary color but a subtractive primary color evoked by the combination of red and light blue.

   web magenta (additive magenta):  

   printer's magenta (subtractive magenta):  

   Prismacolor magenta:  

   • 1950, Norman Lindsay, Dust or Polish?, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 154:

     Mrs Dibble's face blazed with a magenta uprush of blood at that ultimatum and she screamed, "You dare try to do me out of my gin too! You dare!"

同意語

• fuchsia
• fuchsine

派生語

形容詞

magenta (comparative more magenta, superlative most magenta)

1. Having the color of fuchsia, fuchsine, light purple.

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アナグラム

• magnate, name tag, gateman, amagent, nametag