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English
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Etymology
1660s, coined by Milton, originally in sense "unfading", as amaranth + -ine, from Ancient Greek ἀμάραντος (amárantos, “unfading”). Later used for color.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˌæm.əˈɹæn.θɪn/, /-θaɪn/
Noun
amaranthine (countable and uncountable, plural amaranthines)
- A dark reddish-purple colour.
amaranthine:
- The amaranth flower.
1857, Eleanor Duckworth, Milly Wentworth, Poems and Sketches, page 65:Ah! when the eternal morning dawns,
And amaranthines shall displace the thorns […]
Adjective
amaranthine (comparative more amaranthine, superlative most amaranthine)
- Of a dark reddish purple colour.
- Unfading, eternal, immortal, infinite.
1667, John Milton, “Book XI”, in Paradise Lost. , London: [Samuel Simmons], , →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: , London: Basil Montagu Pickering , 1873, →OCLC:[…] The angelick blast
Filled all the regions: from their blisful bowers
Of amarantine shade, fountain or spring,
By the waters of life, where’er they sat
In fellowships of joy, the sons of light
Hasted, resorting to the summons high
1946, Mervyn Peake, Titus Groan, London: Eyre & Spottiswoode:“Fuchsia,” said the Doctor, “come along this evening and I’ll give you a tonic which you must make her take every day. By all that’s amaranthine you really must. […] ”
- Relating to the mythical amaranth flower that never fades.
- Relating to, or having the form of plants of the genus Amaranthus.
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