woad

Nghĩa (Tiếng Anh)

Noun

1. The plant Isatis tinctoria.
2. The blue vat dye made from the leaves of the plant through partial drying and fermentation.

Verb

1. To plant or cultivate woad.
2. To dye with woad.

Từ đồng nghĩa

ceruse

civet

collyrium

henna

rouge

gold-leaf

Isatis

artificial beauty-spot

dyer’s woad

Phát âm là (IPA)

/wəʊd/

Từ nguyên (Tiếng Anh)

From Middle English wode, from Old English wād (“woad”), from Proto-West Germanic *waiʀd, from Proto-Germanic *waizdaz (“woad”), from Proto-Indo-European *woydʰ-. Cognate with Old Frisian wēd (“woad”), Dutch wede (“woad”), German Waid (“woad”), and with French guède, Italian guado (“woad”) (both borrowed from Frankish). See also weed.