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Webster 1913 Edition

Pigment

Pig′ment

Noun.

[L.

pigmentum

, fr. the root of

pingere

to paint: cf. F.

pigment

. See

Paint

, and cf.

Pimento

Orpiment

Any material from which a dye, a paint, or the like, may be prepared; particularly, the refined and purified coloring matter ready for mixing with an appropriate vehicle.

(Physiol.)

Any one of the colored substances found in animal and vegetable tissues and fluids, as bilirubin, urobilin, chlorophyll, etc.

Wine flavored with species and honey.

Sir W. Scott.

Pigment cell

(Physiol.)

a small cell containing coloring matter, as the pigmented epithelial cells of the choroid and iris, or the pigmented connective tissue cells in the skin of fishes, reptiles, etc.

Webster 1828 Edition

Pigment

PIG'MENT

Noun.

[L. pigmentum, from the root of pingo, to paint.]

Paint; a preparation used by painters, dyers, &c. to impart colors to bodies.

Definition 2024

Pigment

See also: pigment

German

Noun

Pigment n ‎(genitive Pigments or Pigmentes, plural Pigmente)

pigment

Declension

Declension of Pigment

	singular			plural
	indef.	def.	noun	def.	noun
nominative	ein	das	Pigment	die	Pigmente
genitive	eines	des	Pigmentes, Pigments	der	Pigmente
dative	einem	dem	Pigment, Pigmente¹	den	Pigmenten
accusative	ein	das	Pigment	die	Pigmente

¹Now uncommon, see notes

pigment

See also: Pigment

English

Noun

pigment ‎(plural pigments)

(biology) Any color in plant or animal cells
Chlorophyll is the pigment responsible for most plants' green colouring.
A dry colorant, usually an insoluble powder
Umber is a pigment made from clay containing iron and manganese oxide.
(obsolete) Wine flavoured with spices and honey.
(Can we find and add a quotation of Sir Walter Scott to this entry?)

Derived terms

pigmentary

Related terms

pimiento

Translations

any color in plant or animal cells

Armenian: պիգմենտ (hy) ‎(pigment)
Asturian: pigmentu m
Catalan: pigment (ca) m
Chinese:
Mandarin: 色素 (zh) ‎(sèsù)
Dutch: pigment (nl) n
Finnish: pigmentti (fi), väriaine (fi)
French: pigment (fr) m
Galician: pigmento (gl) m
German: Pigment (de) n
Greek: χρωστική ουσία f ‎(chrostikí ousía)
Hungarian: pigment (hu)
Japanese: 色素 ‎(しきそ, shikiso), 顔料 ‎(がんりょう, ganryō)
Korean: 색소 ‎(saekso) (色素 (ko))

Norwegian:

Bokmål: pigment n

Nynorsk: pigment n
Persian: رنگیزه (fa) ‎(rangize)
Polish: pigment (pl) m inan
Portuguese: pigmento (pt) m
Romanian: pigment (ro) m
Russian: пигме́нт (ru) m ‎(pigmént)
Spanish: pigmento (es)
Swedish: pigment (sv) n
Tagalog: dinsol
Vietnamese: sắc tố (vi) (色素)
Volapük: köl (vo), täin

a dry colorant, usually an insoluble powder

Arabic:
Armenian: գունանյութ (hy) ‎(gunanyutʿ), ներկանյութ (hy) ‎(nerkanyutʿ)
Catalan: pigment (ca) m
Chinese:
Mandarin: 顏料 (zh), 颜料 (zh) ‎(yánliào), 著色劑, 着色剂 ‎(zhuósèjì)
Dutch: pigment (nl) n, kleurstof (nl)
Finnish: pigmentti (fi), väriaine (fi)
Galician: pigmento (gl) m
Georgian:
German: Farbstoff (de) m
Greek: βαφή (el) f ‎(vafí)

Japanese: 顔料 ‎(がんりょう, ganryō)
Norwegian:

Bokmål: pigment n

Nynorsk: pigment n
Persian: رنگدانه (fa) ‎(rangdâne), پیگمان ‎(pigmân), پیگمنت ‎(pigment)
Polish: pigment (pl) m inan
Portuguese: pigmento (pt) m
Russian: пигме́нт (ru) m ‎(pigmént), краси́тель (ru) m ‎(krasítelʹ)
Spanish: pigmento (es) m
Thai:
Volapük: köl (vo)

Verb

pigment ‎(third-person singular simple present pigments, present participle pigmenting, simple past and past participle pigmented)

(transitive) To add color or pigment to something.

Derived terms

pigmentation

Translations

To add color or pigment

Asturian: pigmentar
Catalan: pigmentar (ca)
Chinese:
Mandarin:
Dutch: kleuren (nl), pigmenteren
Finnish: värjätä (fi)

Galician: pigmentar (gl)
Polish: pigmentować
Portuguese: pigmentar
Russian:
Spanish: pigmentar (es)

Anagrams

temping

Dutch

Pronunciation

Hyphenation: pig‧ment
Rhymes: -ɛnt

Etymology

From Latin pigmentum ‎(“pigment”), itself from pingō ‎(“I paint”) + -mentum.

Noun

pigment n ‎(plural pigmenten, diminutive pigmentje n)

pigment, coloring substance

Derived terms

pigmentatie
pigmenteren
pigmentering
pigmentpapier n
pigmentvreter m

Related terms

kleurstof

French

Etymology

From Latin pigmentum ‎(“pigment”), itself from pingō ‎(“I paint”) + -mentum.

Noun

pigment m ‎(plural pigments)

pigment, coloring substance

Derived terms

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Latin pigmentum

Noun

pigment n ‎(definite singular pigmentet, indefinite plural pigment or pigmenter, definite plural pigmenta or pigmentene)

a pigment

References

“pigment” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Latin pigmentum

Noun

pigment n ‎(definite singular pigmentet, indefinite plural pigment, definite plural pigmenta)

a pigment

References

“pigment” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From German Pigment, from Latin pigmentum.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /pǐɡment/
Hyphenation: pi‧gment

Noun

pìgment m ‎(Cyrillic spelling пѝгмент)

pigment

Declension

Declension of pigment

	singular	plural
nominative	pìgment	pigmenti
genitive	pigmenta	pìgmenātā
dative	pigmentu	pigmentima
accusative	pigment	pigmente
vocative	pigmente	pigmenti
locative	pigmentu	pigmentima
instrumental	pigmentom	pigmentima

References

“pigment” in Hrvatski jezični portal

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Webster 1913 Edition

Pigment

Pig′ment

Webster 1828 Edition

Pigment

PIG'MENT

Definition 2024

Pigment

Pigment

German

Noun

Declension

pigment

pigment

English

Noun

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Dutch

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French

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Norwegian Bokmål

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Noun

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Norwegian Nynorsk

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