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語源

From 中期英語 pigment, from Latin pigmentum (“pigment”), itself from pingō (“to paint”) + -mentum; variants of this word may have been known in 古期英語 (e.g. 12th century pyhmentum). Doublet of pimiento, pimento, and piment.

発音

• (Received Pronunciation, General American, Canada, General Australian) IPA: /ˈpɪɡ.mənt/
• (New Zealand) IPA: /ˈpəɡ.mənt/

名詞

pigment (plural pigments)

1. (biology) Any color in plant or animal cells.

   Chlorophyll is the pigment responsible for most plants' green colouring.

2. A dry colorant, usually an insoluble powder.

   Umber is a pigment made from clay containing iron and manganese oxide.

3. (obsolete) Wine flavoured with spices and honey.
   • 1819 December 20 (indicated as 1820), Walter Scott, chapter III, in Ivanhoe; a Romance. […], volume I, Edinburgh: […] Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co. […], →OCLC, page 61:

     Oswald, broach the oldest wine-cask; place the best mead, the richest morat, the most sparkling cyder, the most odoriferous pigment, upon the board; […]

派生語

動詞

pigment (third-person singular simple present pigments, present participle pigmenting, simple past and past participle pigmented)

1. (transitive) To add color or pigment to something.

派生語

• pigmentation
• repigment

アナグラム

• empting, temping

語源

From Latin pigmentum.

発音

• IPA: /ˈpiɡmɛnt/

名詞

pigment (plural pigmentes)

1. A spice or a blend of them.
2. A red pigment.

派生した語

• English: pigment

参照

• “pigment, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.