blue

Senso (Inglese)

1. Of a blue hue.
2. (informal) Depressed, melancholic, sad.
3. Having a bluish or purplish shade of the skin due to a lack of oxygen to the normally deep red red blood cells; cyanotic.
4. Pale, without redness or glare.
5. Supportive of, run by (a member of), pertaining to, or dominated by a political party represented by the colour blue.
6. Supportive of, run by (a member of), pertaining to, or dominated by a political party represented by the colour blue.
7. Supportive of, run by (a member of), pertaining to, or dominated by a political party represented by the colour blue.
8. Of the higher-frequency region of the part of the electromagnetic spectrum which is relevant in the specific observation.
9. Extra rare; left very raw and cold.
10. Having a coat of fur of a slaty gray shade.
11. Severe or overly strict in morals; gloomy.
12. Literary; scholarly; bluestockinged.
13. Having a color charge of blue.
14. (informal) Risqué; obscene; profane; pornographic.
15. (slang) Drunk.

green

azure

blue devil

blue air

very blue

dark green

ash-gray

wild blue yonder

blue color

amobarbital sodium

Amytal

greyish-blue

pale blue

ash-colored

dark-blue

sky-colored

low spirited

aniline blue

grayish-blue

gloomful

greyish-blue

sap stain

apply blue to

grayish-blue

dark colour

Frequenza

Pronunciato come (IPA)

/bluː/

From Middle English blewe, from Anglo-Norman blew (“blue”), from Middle French bleu, from Old French blöe, bleve, blef (“blue”), from Frankish *blāu (“blue”) (perhaps through a Late Latin blāvus, blāvius (“blue”) attested from Isidore of Seville), from Proto-Germanic *blēwaz (“blue, dark blue”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰlēw- (“yellow, blond, grey”). Cognate with dialectal English blow (“blue”), Scots blue, blew (“blue”), North Frisian bla, blö (“blue”), Saterland Frisian blau (“blue”), Dutch blauw (“blue”), German blau (“blue”), Danish, Norwegian and Swedish blå (“blue”), Icelandic blár (“blue”), Latin flāvus (“yellow”), Middle Irish blá (“yellow”). Doublet of blow. Possibly related also to English blee (“colour”), from Old English blēo (“colour”); but direct derivatives of Proto-Germanic *blēwaz (“blue, dark blue”) in Old English include: Old English blāw and blēo (“blue”), Old English blǣwen (“bluish, light-blue”), blǣhǣwen (“blue-coloured, bluish, violet or purple colour”, literally “blue-hued”). There seems to be a parallel connection in Germanic between words for blue and colour, dually exemplified by Proto-West Germanic *blīu (“colour, blee”) and *blāu (“blue”); and Proto-Germanic *hiwją (“colour, hue”) and *hēwijaz (“blue, purple”). The sense "obscene, pornographic" is apparently from the colour; various theories exist as to how it arose, including that it is from the colour of the envelopes used to contain missives of the censors and managers to vaudevillian performers on objectionable material from their acts that needed to be excised.