teal

Signification (Anglais)

Noun

1. (countable) Any of various small freshwater ducks of the genus Anas that are brightly coloured and have short necks.
2. (countable, uncountable) A dark, somewhat bluish-green colour; a dark cyan.
3. (Australia, attributive, countable) A teal independent.

Adj

Having a bluish-green colour.

Concepts

sarcelle

bleu sarcelle

cyan

smaragdine

bleu pétrole

smaragdin

Synonymes

wild duck

bluish green

blue-green

cyan

blue green

greenish blue

green-winged teal

peacock blue

peacock-blue

aquamarine

greenwing

emerald green

garganey

waterfowl

common teal

Traductions

Anas crecca

azul-petróleo

taling

appelblauwzeegroen

cerceta

xarxet

αγριόπαπια

alzavola

patinho

Krickente

βαθυκύανο

barraquete

appelblauwzeegroene

foglia di tè

Azul-Petróleo

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/tiːl/

Étymologie (Anglais)

Hérité de moyen anglais: tele

Hérité de ancien anglais: *tǣle

Appartenant à frison occidental: tjilling

Appartenant à moyen néerlandais: teling

Appartenant à néerlandais: taling

Appartenant à Middle Low German: telink

In summary

From Middle English tele, probably from an unrecorded Old English *tǣle, cognate with West Frisian tjilling (“teal”), Middle Dutch teling (“teal”) (modern Dutch taling), Middle Low German telink, from Proto-Germanic *tailijaz, of unknown ultimate origin, with no cognates outside of Germanic. As the name of a shade of dark greenish-blue like the color patterns on the fowl's head and wings, it is attested from 1923. The Australian political sense derives from the colour teal being intermediate between green (signifying environmentalism) and blue (signifying the conservative Australian Liberal Party).