woad

(Anglais)

Noun

1. (countable, usually) The plant Isatis tinctoria.
2. (countable, uncountable, usually) The blue vat dye made from the leaves of the plant through partial drying and fermentation.

Verb

1. To plant or cultivate woad.
2. To dye with woad.

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/wəʊd/

Étymologie (Anglais)

Hérité de moyen anglais: wode

Hérité de ancien anglais: wād

Appartenant à Old Frisian: wēd

Appartenant à néerlandais: wede

Appartenant à allemand: Waid

Appartenant à français: guède

Appartenant à italien: guado

Appartenant à Frankish: -

In summary

From Middle English wode, from Old English wād (“woad”), from Proto-West Germanic *waiʀd, from Proto-Germanic *waizdaz (“woad”), from Proto-Indo-European *woydʰ-. Cognate with Old Frisian wēd (“woad”), Dutch wede (“woad”), German Waid (“woad”), and with French guède, Italian guado (“woad”) (both borrowed from Frankish). See also weed.

Concepts

guède

pastel

Isatis

Synonymes

ceruse

civet

collyrium

henna

rouge

gold-leaf

Isatis

artificial beauty-spot

dyer’s woad

Traductions

wede

guado

glast

Blaufarbstoff

Waid

Färberwaid

Faerberwaid

Isatis

ισάτις

μπλε ίσατης

Isatis

vitrum

isatis

glastum

Isatis