teal

Senso (Inglese)

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.

Concetti

alzavola

foglia di tè

arzagola

arzavola

blu petrolio

alzagola

marzaiola

sinonimi

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

Traduzioni

sarcelle

Anas crecca

azul-petróleo

taling

appelblauwzeegroen

xarxet

cerceta

αγριόπαπια

patinho

Krickente

βαθυκύανο

barraquete

appelblauwzeegroene

bleu sarcelle

Azul-Petróleo

Pronunciato come (IPA)

/tiːl/

Etimologia (Inglese)

Ereditato da inglese medio: tele

Ereditato da inglese antico: *tǣle

Affine frisone occidentale: tjilling

Affine olandese medio: teling

Affine olandese: taling

Affine 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).