nielle

Borrowed from French nielle. Doublet of nigella.

• IPA^(key): /njɛl/

nielle (comparative more nielle, superlative most nielle)

1. Extremely dark black.
   • 1999, L.E. Modesitt, Jr., Gravity Dreams, page 5:

     That sky was not purple, nor blue, but nielle, blackness beyond black, with stars that jabbed like knives of light.

• Nellie

• IPA^(key): /njɛl/
• Homophone: Niel

From Late Latin nigella, substantivization of the feminine of Latin nigellus (“blackish”).

nielle f (plural nielles)

1. corncockle
2. blight, ear cockle

• nieller
• niellure

Often considered a borrowing from Italian niello (from Latin nigellus), but may also reflect a deverbal of nieller, inherited from the same Latin source, perhaps nevertheless influenced in its spelling by Italian.[1]

nielle m (plural nielles)

1. niello

• nieller
• nielleur

nielle

1. inflection of nieller:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

• “nielle”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.