milk-white

Senso (Inglese)

Having a slightly bluish white color, that of milk.

sinonimi

milky

Traduzioni

lacteus

Etimologia (Inglese)

Ereditato da inglese medio: milke white

Ereditato da inglese antico: meolchwīt

Affine olandese: melkwit

Affine tedesco: milchweiß

Affine svedese: mjölkvit

In summary

Inherited from Middle English milke white, mylk-whyte, mylkquyte, mylk-whit, milc-whit, from Old English meolchwīt (“milk-white”), equivalent to milk + white. Compare Dutch melkwit (“milk-white”), German milchweiß (“milk-white”), Swedish mjölkvit (“milk-white”).