bleu
Meaning
-
- blue
- very rare, underdone
Concepts
very rare
blue paper
light-blue
pale blue
blue air
Blue Tit
cooked rare
dark-blue
iron blue
raw recruit
wild blue yonder
amobarbital sodium
Amytal
blue devil
sap stain
very blue
driver’s license
bleu
bluish black
Synonyms
couleur bleue
bleu indigo
Bleu de Prusse
tirage en bleu
trace bleue
fromage bleu
entolome tout bleu
entolome violet
blue angel
uebl
blue air
rookie
bourdille
peu expérimenté
bloe
Frequency
Pronounced as (IPA)
/blø/
Etymology
In summary
Inherited from Middle French bleu, from Old French blöe, bleve, blef (“blue”), from Late Latin blāvus, from Frankish *blāu (“blue”), from Proto-Germanic *blēwaz (“blue”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰléh₁-, *bʰlh₁-, *bʰleh₁- (“yellow, grey, blue”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰel- (“to shine”). Cognate with Old High German blāo (“blue”) (German blau), Dutch blauw (“blue”), Old English blāw (“blue”). More at blue.
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