mauve

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English

WOTD – 3 May 2006
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Etymology

Borrowed from French mauve (“mallow”), from Latin malva, which has a purple colour. Doublet of mallow. Coined in 1856 by the chemist William Henry Perkin, when he accidentally created the first aniline dye.

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /məʊv/
  • (US) IPA(key): /mɔːv/, /moʊv/
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  • Rhymes: -əʊv, -ɔːv

Noun

mauve (countable and uncountable, plural mauves)

  1. (historical) A rich purple synthetic dye, which faded easily, briefly popular c. 1859‒1873 and now called mauveine.
    mauveine:  
    old mauve:  
  2. A pale purple or violet colour, like the colour of the dye when it faded.
    mauve:  

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mauve (comparative mauver or more mauve, superlative mauvest or most mauve)

  1. Having a pale purple colour.
    • 1936, F.J. Thwaites, chapter XXII, in The Redemption, Sydney: H. John Edwards, published 1940, page 222:
      [A]long their time-marked walls wistaria threw patches of mauve blossom.

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French

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Etymology 1

Inherited from Old French, from Latin malva (“mallow”), which has a purple colour; ultimately of Semitic origin.

Noun

mauve f (plural mauves)

  1. mallow

Noun

mauve m (plural mauves)

  1. mauve

Adjective

mauve (plural mauves)

  1. mauve
Descendants
  • → English: mauve
  • → Greek: μοβ (mov), μωβ (mov)
  • → Romanian: mov
  • → Russian: мов (mov)

Etymology 2

Inherited from Middle French mauve, from Old French mave (“mew”), from Old English mǣw (“mew, seagull”), from Proto-Germanic *maihwaz, *maiwaz (“seagull”). Related to mouette. Cognate with German Möwe (“seagull”), Dutch meeuw (“seagull”), Danish måge (“seagull”), Icelandic mávur (“seagull”), Polish mewa (“seagull”) (from Germanic). More at mew.

Noun

mauve f (plural mauves)

  1. mew, gull, seagull
    Synonyms: mouette, goéland
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Norman

Etymology 1

From Old French mave (“mew”), from Old English mǣw (“mew, seagull”) or Old Norse már, mávar (compare Icelandic mávur), from Proto-Germanic *maihwaz, *maiwaz (“seagull”).

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Noun

mauve f (plural mauves)

  1. (Jersey) seagull, herring gull
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Etymology 2

From Old French, from Latin malva.

Noun

mauve f (plural mauves)

  1. (Jersey) tree mallow (Malva arborea, syn. Lavatera arborea)
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