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16th century (as indico, modern spelling from the 17th century), Spanish índigo, Portuguese endego (modern índigo), or Dutch (via Portuguese) indigo, all from Latin indicum (“indigo”), from Ancient Greek ἰνδικόν (indikón, “Indian dye”), from Ἰνδία (Indía).^[1] Doublet of Indic.

• (UK) enPR: ĭn'dĭgō, IPA^(key): /ˈɪn.dɪˌɡəʊ/

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• (US) enPR: ĭn'dĭgō, IPA^(key): /ˈɪndɪˌɡoʊ/

indigo (countable and uncountable, plural indigos or indigoes)

1. A purplish-blue colour.

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   • 1907 January, Harold Bindloss, chapter 6, in The Dust of Conflict, 1st Canadian edition, Toronto, Ont.: McLeod & Allen, →OCLC:

     The night was considerably clearer than anybody on board her desired when the schooner Ventura headed for the land. It rose in places, black and sharp against the velvety indigo, over her dipping bow, though most of the low littoral was wrapped in obscurity.

2. An indigo-colored dye obtained from certain plants (indigo plant or woad), or a similar synthetic dye.
3. An indigo plant, such as from species in genera Indigofera, Amorpha (false indigo), Baptisia (wild indigo), and Psorothamnus and Dalea (indigo bush).

indigo (comparative more indigo, superlative most indigo)

1. having a deep purplish-blue colour

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indigo n (plural indigo's)

1. the colour indigo

indigo (invariable, comparative meer indigo, superlative meest indigo)

1. indigo-coloured

Derived from Latin indicum (“indigo”), from Ancient Greek ἰνδικόν (indikón, “Indian dye”).

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• Rhymes: -iɡo
• Hyphenation: in‧di‧go

indigo (accusative singular indigon, plural indigoj, accusative plural indigojn)

1. indigo ("colour")

From Swedish indigo, from Spanish índigo.

• IPA^(key): /ˈindiɡo/,
• Rhymes: -indiɡo
• Hyphenation^(key): in‧di‧go

indigo

1. indigo (color)
2. indigo (plant of the genus Indigofera)

• väri-indigo (“Indigofera tinctoria”)

indigo (comparative indigompi, superlative indigoin)

1. indigo (being of that color)

• “indigo”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎ (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-02

• IPA^(key): /ɛ̃.di.ɡo/

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indigo m (plural indigos)

1. indigo (color)

indigo (plural indigos)

1. indigo (being of that color)

• “indigo”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé , 2012.

indigo

1. first-person singular present indicative of indigere

• gnidio, gonidi

Borrowed from French indigo.

indigo n (plural indigouri)

1. indigo

indigo m or f or n (indeclinable)

1. indigo

Borrowed from English indigo.

indigo (feminine singular indigo, plural indigo, equative mor indigo, comparative mwy indigo, superlative mwyaf indigo)

1. indigo