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語源

From Middle French carnation (“flesh color, complexion”), either via Italian carnagione (“flesh color”) or directly from Late Latin carnātiō (“fleshiness”), from Latin carō (“flesh, meat”) + ātiō (“-ation”). As a flower and its color, possibly instead from corruption in French of coronation (“crowning, crowned thing”) under the influence of carnation, from the flower's supposed resemblance to a crown. By surface analysis, Latin carn- +‎ -ate +‎ -ion.

発音

• (英国発音) IPA: /kɑːˈneɪ.ʃən/
• (米国発音) IPA: /kɑɹˈneɪ.ʃən/
• 韻: -eɪʃən

名詞

carnation (countable and uncountable, plural carnations)

1. (botany) A type of Eurasian plant widely cultivated for its flowers.
   1. originally, Dianthus caryophyllus
   2. other members of genus Dianthus and hybrids
2. The type of flower they bear, originally flesh-coloured, but since hybridizing found in a variety of colours.
3. A rosy pink colour

   carnation:  

   • 1851, Herman Melville, Moby Dick, Chapter 6:

     And the women of New Bedford, they bloom like their own red roses. But roses only bloom in summer; whereas the fine carnation of their cheeks is perennial as sunlight in the seventh heavens.

4. (archaic, now especially heraldry) The pinkish colors used in art to render human face and flesh

   carnation:  

5. A scarlet colour.

同意語

• (plant, flower): clove pink (also called gillyflower), (ancestor of the carnation) Dianthus caryophyllus
• (plant, flower): cottage pink, Dianthus plumarius

派生語

関連する語

形容詞

carnation (not comparable)

1. Of a rosy pink or red colour.
2. (archaic) Of a human flesh color.

参考

• gypsophila

アナグラム

• Cantorian, Carnotian