indigo

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

Colors/Colours in English (layout · text)
red	orange	yellow	green	blue (incl.      indigo;              cyan, teal, turquoise)	purple / violet
pink (including          magenta)	brown		white	gray/grey	black

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indigo n (plural indigo's)

1. the colour indigo

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

1. indigo-coloured

Declension of indigo
uninflected	indigo
inflected	indigo
comparative	—
		positive
predicative/adverbial		indigo
indefinite	m./f. sing.	indigo
	n. sing.	indigo
	plural	indigo
definite		indigo
partitive		indigo's

Colors in Dutch · kleuren (layout · text)

wit	grijs	zwart
rood; karmijnrood	oranje; bruin	geel; roomwit
groengeel/limoengroen	groen
blauwgroen/cyaan; groenblauw/petrolblauw	azuurblauw	blauw
violet; indigo	magenta; paars	roze

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

• IPA^(key): [inˈdiɡo]
• 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/, [ˈindiɡo̞]
• 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]‎^[1] (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)

Colors in French · couleurs (layout · text)

blanc	gris	noir
rouge; cramoisi, carmin	orange; brun, marron	jaune; crème
lime	vert	menthe
cyan, turquoise; bleu canard	azur, bleu ciel	bleu
violet, lilas; indigo	magenta; pourpre	rose

• “indigo”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 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

Colors in Romanian · culori (layout · text)

alb	gri	negru
roșu; carmin	portocaliu; maro	galben; crem
	verde	verde mentă
cyan	bleu	albastru
violet; indigo	mov; purpură	roz

Borrowed from English indigo.

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

1. indigo

Colors in Welsh · lliwiau (layout · text)

gwyn	llwyd	du
coch; rhudd	oren, melyngoch; brown	melyn; melynwyn
melynwyrdd	gwyrdd
gwyrddlas; glaswyrdd	asur, gwynlas	glas
fioled, rhuddlas; indigo	majenta; porffor	pinc, rhuddwyn